I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Got two technical phone interviews. All 45 minutes long but on separate days. The first interview asked about basic data structures and a question that is finding pairs in an array of integers, such that the two numbers in the pair sum to a fixed number. Then the second phone interview asked similar thing, but about tree. The first question is really easy, which is merging two sorted arrays into one array. The second question is to check if a binary tree is a binary search tree. Then I stopped at this step without going to onsite.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I expect them to ask me OO design but they didn't.
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.