amazon intern 2026 vo experience
Summary
I had a virtual onsite interview for an Amazon intern position, which involved a significant portion of behavioral questions followed by a coding problem and its follow-ups.
Full Experience
I started as usual with about five minutes of self-introduction and small talk. Then there were around 27 minutes of behavioral questions, including:
Why Amazon? Why this internship program?
Describe a situation where you had to make a quick decision.
One question related to a deadline (DDL).
Overall, there was a fairly high proportion of behavioral questions. The depth of answers and follow-up questions varied randomly depending on the interviewer.
Then there were about 25 minutes of coding: given two sorted arrays arr1 and arr2, merge arr2 into arr1 without using an extra array, keeping arr1 in ascending order. This was straightforward with a two-pointer approach. The follow-up asked how to merge them if the arrays were in descending order, and how to handle it if the arrays were unsorted.
Finally, I had a chance to ask one question, which was mostly just a formality.
Interview Questions (5)
Why Amazon and This Internship?
Why Amazon? Why this internship program?
Quick Decision Making
Describe a situation where you had to make a quick decision.
Merge Two Sorted Arrays In-Place
Given two sorted arrays arr1 and arr2, merge arr2 into arr1 without using an extra array, keeping arr1 in ascending order.
Merge Two Sorted Arrays (Descending Order)
How to merge two arrays if they were sorted in descending order.
Merge Two Unsorted Arrays
How to handle merging two arrays if they were unsorted.