I applied online. The process took 5 months.

Applied in Sep 2025. Online Assessment in Nov 2025. 2 coding questions. One medium, one hard. Followed by a bunch of behavioral questions. Virtual Interview in Feb 2026. 2 rounds, 1 hour each, continuous one after the other for 2 hours.

It was a great interview experience, very structured. Before each round started, the interviewer informed me about what would follow: first half leadership principles and then coding, or vice versa.

• Round 1: Engineer -> 3 Amazon leadership principle-based questions, followed by coding.
• Round 2: Hiring Manager -> Coding followed by 3 leadership principle (LP) questions.

Round 1:

• 3 LP questions -> expected very in-depth answers based on my past work/projects.
• Simple low-level design. Implement a few methods for the scenario given. I believe handling edge cases, choosing the right data structure, and the right class or object structure was important. These decisions simplified operations, and reduced time complexity of operations.
• Interviewer nudged me towards a couple of edge cases/misses in code. Expected optimal operations w.r.t. time complexity.
• Asked about my choice of data structure and class structure.
• Interview overshot scheduled time by 10 mins.

Round 2:

• Course Schedule II (topological sort) - LeetCode - worded as Amazon-based system. Expected optimal solution.
• Followed by 3 LP questions - simpler than round 1 and depth of answers required was also lower.
• Interview overshot scheduled time by 5 mins.