Amazon Interview Questions (2024)

34. What methods do you use to assess and mitigate risks in your projects?

56. Do you consider yourself a calculated risk-taker?

57. When have you had to change a major component of your project due to new information?

64. Describe a situation where you had to make a decision without data

69. This role with Amazon is highly technical. What is your understanding of this position and the responsibilities that come with it?

70. We encourage innovation at Amazon. What does innovation mean to you?

71. Jeff Bezos walks into your office and says you can have a million dollars to launch your best entrepreneurial idea. What is it?

72. Amazon has over 300 million active customers. How do you think we can attract an even larger customer base?

94. Tell me about the most interesting project you worked on this year and the biggest lesson you learned from it.

100. We consider research to be the backbone of what we do at Amazon. Do you think it's important to conduct research before beginning a project, or would you rather jump right in?

101. How many windows are there in Seattle?

103. What distinguishes a great software engineer from an average one?

105. How would you implement Dijkstra's Shortest Path using a programming language with which you are familiar?

110. What process do you use to test and find bugs in an application you've developed?

111. How do you go about addressing errors in your code?

113. Walk me through your process for designing scalable applications.

114. Can you describe a tough software development problem you encountered in your last job and discuss how you solved it?

115. How would you accelerate the response time of a website you created for us here at Amazon?

522. How do you prioritize your work?

523. Give me an example of a time when you had to go above and beyond to get the job done.

524. Tell me about a time when you failed at something and how you dealt with it

530. Evaluating the importance of technology project tasks

531. Tell me about a time you received negative feedback and how you dealt with it

532. Tell me about a time you had to make a decision on your own

535. Talk about the most innovative project

541. What was a significant challenge you faced during college and how did you deal with it?

543. Describe a time when you solved a complex problem without prior knowledge

544. Tell me about a time where you led a project from start to finish

555. Describe a time when working in a team slowed everything down

557. Give examples of what impact and how data reflected on previous decisions you've made

559. When is a time where you had to dive deep?

560. Describe a time you felt adversity

562. Describe a time when you had to make a decision without all the information

563. Tell me about a time when you couldn't make a deadline and how you handled it.

564. Tell me about a time that you dealt with difficulty choosing between two solutions

565. What is the hardest problem you ever solved?

569. What's the most difficult project you have worked on?

570. Tell me about a time when you leveraged customer experience data to make business decisions

571. Describe a time when a project did not go as planned

576. What do you think creativity is?

580. Describe a challenging experience and how you navigated it

581. Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly

582. Describe a time when you had to adapt to a significant change at work

586. Describe a time you opted for long-term gains over short-term benefits

588. Tell me about a time you created something

589. Tell me about a time you took a risk in a project

590. Tell me about a time you deep-dived in a task

591. Tell me about a time you worked with big data sets

592. Tell me about a time when you had to dig deep to get an answer

595. Tell me about a time where you made predictions on data and avoided a possible future problem