Amazon system design interview
Round 5 of 7 · 25 questions reported
- Length
- 55 min
- Format
- Design discussion
- They grade
- Practicality, reliability and scalability, after clarifying questions
- Heads-up
- Applied scientist and MLE loops get ML system design instead.
Questions Amazon asks in this round 25
- Transformer and attention fundamentalsSep 2026 · often
- ML fundamentals deep dive for ML rolesSep 2026 · sometimes
- Design UberMay 2026 · once
- Web-scale crawl cleaning for pretraining dataMar 2026 · once
- Design a bot detection system
- Design a distributed key-value store
- Design a driver location heatmap
- Design a hotel booking system
- Design a logging service
- Design a metrics monitoring system
- Design a news feed
- Design a quota service
- Design a rate limiter
- Design a real-time air traffic control system
- Design a real-time temperature monitoring system
- Design a VM bandwidth rate limiter
- Design Amazon Locker
- Design an address autofill system
- Design an online bookstore
- Design an S3-like object storage system
- Design ChatGPT
- Design Spotify
- Design TinyURL
- Design typeahead suggestions
- Design YouTube
About the Amazon system design round
What does Amazon ask in the system design round?
The most asked: Transformer and attention fundamentals, ML fundamentals deep dive for ML roles and Design Uber. 25 questions reported in all.
How long is the Amazon system design round?
About 55 minutes.
What is the Amazon system design round like?
Design discussion. They grade: Practicality, reliability and scalability, after clarifying questions.