I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2011
Interview
A recruiter contacted me via email.
I chose a day where I could fly to Seattle and attend a day long interview process (There were 4 interviews, each 45 minutes long).
Before the interviews started, we had an informal lunch with some of their employees.
All of the interviewers were nice except one. The interviewer (some manager - which is even more shocking) then became so unprofessional to the point that I felt like yelling at him and leaving the room. Thankfully, there was at least one professional in the room (i.e. me) and I kept working at the problem till he finally got out.
Was given a set of fields. Was asked to figure out the best data structure to store this data in the form of a list and at any given point, retrieve the first 5 (decreasing order) of field values.
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.