My timeline was very weird so I'll put it in bullet points: - applied in July for an L4 position - reached out to by a recruiter in August and was leveled up to an L5 position and was asked for interview availability for a phone screen round (30 min behavioral - 30 min tech) - took 3 weeks to get my interview scheduled for the beginning of September: cruised through the coding problem and had a lot of chemistry with the interviewer - a week after this interview I was told they were no longer hiring for the position and received no additional info - next day, another recruiter calls me to schedule a virtual on-site for another team for an L4 role - a week later I was told someone was hired before I could even schedule the interview - a few days later I hear from another recruiter who wants to schedule me for a virtual on-site which we ended getting scheduled for 3 weeks after - 2 interviews on day 1 and 2 more on day 2 as follows: - interview 1 (30 min behavioral - 30 min tech) - interview 2 (bar raiser - completely behavioral) - interview 3 (30 min behavioral - 30 min tech) - interview 4 (20 min behavioral - 40 min tech) - heard back a week later that I waouldn't be getting an offer (first of November - insanely long process) The bar raiser round was brutal because they grilled me with about 7 behavioral questions and 2-3 additional questions on top of each of those. If you have a round like this and don't come in with at least 15+ solid STAR stories prepared you're done for. I had to repeat answers across my interviews because I was told that 8 stories was more than enough. The tech questions were a breeze for me and they would be for any decent FEE because they were very focused on front end specific things. I definitely botched this because I didn't have enough stories for the behavioral portion and ended up repeating myself too much. Difficult interview, but the experience wasn't the best because of the scheduling difficulties (I was very open and they still had trouble) and the fact that they don't give feedback. I can give vague descriptions of interview questions.

I interviewed for the Front End Engineer I role at Amazon and received an offer. The process started with an online assessment consisting of two DSA questions and one React debugging/fixing task. I was able to complete all the questions. The first interview focused on a graph-based DSA problem, follow-up questions, resume discussion, and Amazon Leadership Principles. I initially mentioned that I was not very comfortable with graph problems, but I worked through the solution by discussing my approach and recalling DFS/BFS concepts. The round went reasonably well. The second round was with a senior front-end engineer and was heavily focused on front-end development. We discussed Next.js, my previous projects, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and AI-assisted development. There was also a machine coding exercise where I built components similar to Amazon product cards. This was my strongest round. The final round was with the Hiring Manager. We briefly discussed my resume and then spent most of the interview on behavioral and Leadership Principle questions. The conversation was engaging, and I also had the opportunity to ask several questions about the team and role. Overall, the interview process was challenging but fair. My advice is to prepare DSA fundamentals, be ready to discuss every project on your resume in depth, and spend significant time preparing Leadership Principle stories.