I applied through university. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2013
Interview
I sent in my resume to a recruiter and received a reply about a week later. I interviewed about a month later. Interview process involved two phone interviews, back-to-back. Both interviewers were very polite. The first one wasn't too fond of straight up coding as he was with problem solving, so I only had one coding question in total, which was from the second interview. General concepts were asked, such as involving data structures like graphs and trees. Simple questions were asked such as benefits of binary search and how it works. Questions involving OOP were also asked, as well as questions regarding time and space complexity. The whole process took about two months, I heard back about 4 weeks after the interview.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Explain to a high school student with limited computer knowledge how a CPU is capable of running two programs simultaneously.
Write a program where given input similar to the Unix "ps" command, where username is listed as well as the memory used by the process, sort the data by username, then by memory used, and print it. Give the time and space complexity.
Write a function to merge two sorted linked lists. If you were to incorporate this functionality into the standard library, how would you implement it so as to "benefit from the OOP goodness"
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.
2 rounds:
1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences
Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant
2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Pretty difficult OA didn't need to get full score. One round technical interview with SDE. Interview was pretty easy, most people I knew at school and friends ended up passing the interview. Took about 1 month to hear back after interview