I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2012
Interview
Received an email from HR about scheduling a phone interview. I applied at their website before that but they also could have found my resume another way. First phone interview was all techincal and asked me to code a method to do a depth first search of a binary tree. And also had me do a coding problem where I had an endless stream of integers and I had to keep track of the 1000 largest in big O of log N time.
Second phone interview was all technical and had be right a method to take in two numbers and raise one number to the power of the other ex: 2^3 = 8; Next questions was given an array of numbers to remove the duplicates in big O n log N times with memory space of big O(1).
I didn't make it pasted the second phone interview
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
given an array of numbers to remove the duplicates
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.