I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2013
Interview
Contacted me by a Recruiting Coordinator through email. Not sure how they got my info. Scheduled a phone interview two weeks after that. Phone call was 15 mins late, and the Interview last for one hour. Interviewer first introduced himself and his department a little bit, then asked following questions...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Ask about your previous programming experience.
2. Network knowledge. eg. what does "http://" mean.
3. Write codes -- data structure problem for me: design a system to store and manage songs of a specific music team, given songs' names. You also need to provide various functions, e.g. sort, insert...
Interview by recuriter, Phone interview over Chime with one easy Leet code problem and 2 behavioral questions. Although the interviewer was very casual at the start of the conversation, it quickly changed into behavioral questions at the start.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Encoding optimization algorithm and talk about a project you did recently.
First round is just leet code coding which screens through AI before going into live coding. Pretty simple and straighforward. Not too tough. Recruiter walks through it pretty nicely. Not sure how many rounds there are exactly
After submitting my application for the Software Engineer position, I received an invitation to complete an automated Online Assessment (OA). The assessment consisted of standard coding challenges, primarily focusing on algorithmic and data structure problems. Unfortunately, a few days after submitting my solutions for the assessment, I received an email informing me that I would not be moving forward in the interview process and was rejected.