Replying 11 days later so maybe you never see this but... I'm an interviewer (and SDE) at Amazon and (at least in my division) we won't do a hire loop for a no

Replying 11 days later so maybe you never see this but... I'm an interviewer (and SDE) at Amazon and (at least in my division) we won't do a hire loop for a non-entry level engineer that doesn't include a design interview. It can make or break a candidate, but if you've been in the industry for a few years we expect you have some ideas beyond "Get a bigger database server" when we ask how you'd scale a solution.