Amazon Lab126 QA Engineer interview experience

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through what started as a straightforward phone-stage recruiting flow.

The recruiter got the conversation going first, then I did an initial phone screen with team members. From there, I reached the onsite step, which was virtual during COVID, and it still felt very interview-like in the Amazon way—heavy on behavioral questioning even when I was interviewing for what I expected to be more coding-focused work.

The overall theme of the phone screen was practicing behavioral answers until I could deliver them smoothly, because that was what dominated the early conversations. Honestly, it surprised me because the amount of behavioral emphasis felt disproportionate

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