Amazon Interview Questions (2024)

104. What personal software development projects have you worked on outside of work?

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

106. Which do you prefer - a micro-service approach or a monolithic app?

107. Walk me through the steps to build a single page application with multiple sections using the programming framework in which you typically work.

108. How do you go about organizing CSS files, and why do you prefer this approach?

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?

112. Describe the process you use to create a program, from requirements definition to delivery.

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

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

116. What are some of the programming languages you are familiar with, and which ones do you prefer?

117. Please describe responsive design and the difference between fixed and fluid layouts.

118. How would you go about explaining Amazon's cloud computing environment to someone who doesn't have a technical background?

119. What do you look for or check when reviewing another team member's code?

120. What do you feel are the critical principles of good software engineering?

121. Can you define black box testing and white box testing and discuss the differences between them?

122. Can you describe the functions of web workers in HTML5?

123. What are the differences between blocking and non-blocking calls in the context of Node.js?

125. Please describe a stack and the two operations it performs.

126. What are the differences between an array and a stack?

547. What is your role now?

553. Can you describe the tech stack from your previous organization?

566. Can you describe the role of the AI Associate?

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

583. What experience do you have in a warehouse?

588. Tell me about a time you created something

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

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

608. Tell me about the most complex data set you had

614. How do you improve shipping metrics with 1000 vendors?

617. How did you use data to improve a process?

619. Describe a situation where you had to get to the root of a problem in an unclear situation

624. Can you tell me about your education and qualifications?

627. Describe a time when you realized you did not have the skills needed to do the job

629. What is the innovative thing you have ever built or done?

635. Can you talk about a situation where you had to dive deep to solve a problem?

639. Tell me about a time you identified a KPI during a process you were improving

643. Describe a time you worked backwards to identify the root cause of a problem using data

645. How did you make a process more efficient?

655. Tell me about your past projects and experience

656. How do you use data to make decisions?

684. Explain the electricity chain briefly

689. Talk about your undergraduate thesis

705. How many years of experience do you have?

712. Describe a bug that came up in your projects and how you solved it

714. Describe your experience as a Packer

722. Walk me through one of your projects

727. Have you ever delivered before?

728. Explain why you are a good fit for this position

754. What are the challenges the industry is facing?