I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2012
Interview
Got scheduled an interviews which consisted of 3 phone calls after my friend dropped my resume off to Amazon (he works there). Some questions were hard, some were not, they all consisted of things you learn in University level Computer Science courses; reduce time complexity and memory complexity, that's what they were looking for. Some questions caught me off guard but they are all answerable if you study. Here were the questions:
1st interview:
Given an array of integers, return in a function the number of instances odd numbers
Given a binary tree, return the minimum depth of a particular leaf node
2nd Interview:
Given an integer, write a function which return whether or not the integer is divisible by 2
Given a function which takes in a 2D point "n" , an array of 2D points and a number "k", return the k closest-points to "n"
3rd Interview:
Given a singly-linked list, return the 3rd from last element
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a function which takes in a 2D point "n" , an array of 2D points and a number "k", return the k closest-points to "n"
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.