I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2012
Interview
The interviewing process took about 4 weeks. There were 2 technical phone interviews followed by an on site visit that consisted of 6 technical in person interviews. They focus almost exclusively on your ability to manipulate data structures, design good object oriented code and solve basic/intermediate puzzles.
Given an arbitrary list of points and a point x, interpolate it's y value based on the two closest points to it in the list.
Given a Singly Linked List write the code to reverse it in place.
Given two Singly Linked Lists how do you find where they intersect. What if you can design the nodes? What if you can't design the nodes?
Design an in memory file/directory system. You must be able to open, modify and delete files/directories.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write the code to read in characters from a file and print out the top 10 most used. What if they are 32 bit characters? What if it's a 4GB file and you only have 1GB of ram?
If you have a binary tree and want to send it to a mobile device, how would you do it? Write the code to create the flattened tree and to recreate the tree once flattened.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru)
Interview
The interview process consisted of an online assessment followed by two technical interview rounds and one behavioral round. The technical rounds focused on Data Structures, Algorithms, Java, and problem-solving skills. The behavioral round covered Amazon Leadership Principles and past project experiences. The interviewers were professional and the process was well structured.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Find the first non-repeating character in a string.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
Amazon's home assignment test involves receiving a coding or case study assignment, completing it independently within a specified deadline (usually a few days), and submitting it for team review. I got an answer after 2 days
Had a screening from recruiter, then a follow up phone interview.
Had been asked to take an assessment and I flunked it.
I had hard time managing the time in 45 min window.