I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2013
Interview
I received an email to schedule an interview. The recruiter gave me about eight dates to choose from and asked to choose the top five most convenient. After I emailed her, most of the times she gave me passed before I even got a response from her. Finally when I got a response I had three days until the interview. One I got the interview both people I talked with (there were two 45 minute phone interviews) had very thick accents. One was heavily Indian and the other Asian. I had a hard time understanding them over the phone and I had to ask to repeat the question multiple times. The technology did not work on the second interview and over fifteen minutes of time was wasted trying to get it to work. My advice try to get an interview face to face, over the phone just did not work for me. They only has a couple questions each and if you have taken data structures you should be fine.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create an algorithm to find the length of a binary tree.
Hackerrank round first and then two LC questions as the final round (BFS/DFS medium). Also had a behaviour component, testing the leadership principles and how my experiences aligned with them.
Expect one behavioral LP question followed by a leetcode medium or hard for two rounds. Be prepared to answer in depth on the behavioral questions and review LeetCode’s list of questions from Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about what AI platforms you use to help you work more efficiently
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.