My Amazon interview experience 2025 New Grad
I had previously applied for 2024 NG, and I got an interview invitation for December, but my interview could be scheduled at that time, so they gave me a timeslot in Jan for 2025 NG.
Round 1: This was 30 min LP + 30 min coding(1 LC medium)
The interviewer first asked me to go through my resume, asked some basic LP questions. Nothing fancy or out of the blue, and asked some follow up questions.
For the coding part, I was given a leetcode medium - Basically calculating the minimum cost in a weighted directed graph. I'm not sure what to think of this tbh. This was a fairly easy question, but I think I stumbled a bit here and there. Throughout the whole time, I talked loudly about my approach and I was coding side by side, but the interviewer had to help me a bit here and there. So even though I did end up getting the final solution, it was not completely on my own.
Round 2: LP
This was a purely behavioural round with just a lot of LP questions and follow ups. This was fairly easy since I had practised some stories and the questions were pretty much the same as what I had prepared. Nothing out of the blue. The interviewer was also super sweet and friendly.
Round 3: Coding(2 medium LC questions)
This was actually the worst interview I had ever given in my life. The interviewer was not at all communicative. He gave super vague questions. At first I thought he was asking an LLD question TT, bcoz he gave me such a vague question, and he did not even paste the complete question. đ When I asked to clarify, he said "do whatever you feel like". SO I began implementing class structures and created instances of the class. The whole time he said nothing. I'm not even sure if he was even watching or listening to what I was doing TT.
After I was done, I asked him if this is what we was looking was, which is when he pasted the remaining half of the question and I realised it was a graph question đđ.
It was a fairly easy question and I was talking aloud as I was coding it, but there was no response from his side. A similar thing happened with the second question he gave. His question was superrr vague and he did not even provide clarifications when I asked for it. It was so unclear what the question even was, and his only response was "do whatever you think is right"
So I had no choice but to just make assumptions on what he wants and code it. I have no idea what the fuck this was and I am so disappointed that someone like that is interviewing at Amazon. In the end, when I asked him if I answered whatever he was looking for, he said "yea you did your part. Don't worry about it too much". I was so speechless, like why is this dude so unserious. It was like he was not at all interested in the interview and I doubt how much he even heard or saw what I did TT
Final thoughts -
I'm quite disappointed in the last interviewer tbh and I've realised it depends a lot on your luck and the kind of interviewer you get and how you react in that situation. đ
Edit : Got Rejected 2 days later