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Amazon.

The Amazon.com retail marketplace, Prime Video, Alexa and AWS cloud services.

its questions lean on
  • service design
  • notifications
  • object-oriented design
  • scalability
  • availability

The rounds, as candidates describe them

  1. Online assessmentCandidates who pass the online assessment go to the interview loop.source ↗
  2. Interview loopFour 55-minute interviews mixing coding, at least one systems design question, and Leadership Principles questions.source ↗

Reported by candidates

From public interview write-ups; each links its source.

Likely, from what they build

Our pick, not a report: questions that fit Amazon's products.

Study path

An ordered path through the course for Amazon, and why each step is there.

  1. 01W04 · BOSSDesign a Global E-Commerce Product Catalog Systemthe product catalog interview
  2. 02W04 · DAY 05Multi-Tier Cachingcaches at every layer and invalidating them
  3. 03SQ-08AWS S3object storage at planet scale
  4. 04W03 · BOSSEvent-Driven Food Delivery Order Systemevent-driven order processing
  5. 05W05 · DAY 05Leader Election and Coordinationleader election and fencing
  6. 06W10 · DAY 01SLIs, SLOs and SLAsSLIs, SLOs and error budgets
  7. 07W10 · DAY 04Capacity Planningcapacity planning for peak sales
  8. 08W10 · DAY 05Incident Managementincident management and postmortems
  9. 09LLD-02Design an LRU Cachea classic coding/LLD warm-up

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