I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Leipzig) in Aug 2012
Interview
Es war ein glattes Interview mit Fragen wie: Warum möchten Sie für Amazon arbeiten, was ist Ihre bevorzugte Programmiersprache, was ist OOP, geben Sie ein Beispiel, bei dem eine Programmierung in OOP anstelle einer funktionalen Programmierung erforderlich ist, können Sie ein konkretes Beispiel angeben, was ist Polymorphismus, und einige grundlegende Fragen zu Datenbanken.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Entwerfen Sie einen einheitlichen Geldautomaten, der zwar aus mechanischen Gründen kein Geld ausgibt, aber trotzdem die Bilanz ausgeglichen lässt.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.