I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Aug 2011
Interview
there was a initial group activity round where everyone was given two questions and asked to give solution to the respective mentor.
the questions were
1.in an array of integers find the largest sum that can be obtained by adding consecutive elements of the array
2.find the in-order successor of a node in a BST
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a library there are N books with the number of pages in ith book given by b_i.These books are to be distributed among K students such that the difference between the largest sum of pages in the books assigned to any student and the smallest sum of number of pages in the books assigned to any student is minimum for the given input. Also the books are arranged in a certain order and this order must never be changed.
For example:
suppose B[] contains the number of pages in each book.
Then for N=6 K=3 B={3,7,8,2,6,4}, the output will be 0 as we can give book 1 and 2 to student 1 and book 3 and 4 to student 2 and the remaining to student 3. That makes 10 pages for student 1 10 for 2 and 10 for 3 and thus the difference is 0
similarly when B={3,6,8,2,6,4} then the minimum difference will be 1 .
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.