Amazon Interview Questions & Trends 2026 Q2: OA, VO, Coding & Behavioral

Overall Trend

Amazon remains one of the most-discussed companies on the interview board. Recent threads show a stable interview structure but a clearly evolving OA format: alongside the traditional 2-question coding section, a new AI assistant bug-fix coding question has been added, plus Work Simulation (email scenario) and Work Style Surveys (personality) modules. VO is still BQ + Coding on every round, with BQ taking up a large share. GenAI usage BQ shows up in nearly every round. Intern flow: OA → 2 back-to-back VO rounds; some NG/SDE2 candidates get an extra HM evaluation call; L5+ Applied Scientist runs a 5-round onsite (Behavioral / Coding / HM / ML breadth / ML depth). [hidden]

Question Type Distribution

Top 10 Hot Topics

Question Index

General Coding

ML Coding / Concepts

System Design

Difficulty Trend

Algorithm bar has not visibly risen — most coding stays in easy-to-medium territory — but the format is shifting from pure leetcode to scenario-style OOD and AI-assisted engineering.

• Coding trends toward OOD / scenario problems. [hidden]; input format, edge cases, and tradeoffs are explicit scoring axes.
• OA adds an AI-debug task (60-min repo + AI assistant). [hidden]
• Phone Screen occasionally goes off-script: Applied Scientist saw a bucket-batching DP ([hidden]); Audible served a streaming abusive-books detection problem.
• ML interviews test breadth + depth. [hidden]; reciting concepts is far from enough.

Notable Changes

1. New AI-Debug OA question type: [hidden]
2. GenAI BQ is nearly mandatory: [hidden]
3. HM Evaluation Call as a process step: [hidden]
4. Recruiter ghosting is common: [hidden]
5. 12-month cool-down: [hidden]
6. More OOD / scenario problems: [hidden]