I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2012
Interview
Applied online through as a new Graduate. They called and asked to set up an interview. First interview was lots of questions based on material like what are the 5 Principals of Object Oriented Programming. They ask lots of questions about your former work (if you only have school projects they ask you to talk about what you did). They will then ask you questions about those projects such as what programming designs you used (Singleton for example) and ask what characteristics that design has. The last 15 minutes of the interview is a programming question. My question was to write a method that sorts 2 Array's into one. You write this code quickly and tell them over the phone how you wrote it (including parentheses commas, ect). He asks you clarifying questions like if you wanted this to run faster how might you right it, and assuming we wanted duplicates how would you need to modify the code.
The second interview was much more programming based. 20 minutes was general questions followed by a programming question which was done online on a website where both the interviewer and the interviewee could both see and work on the code. I forget what this code was but its a fairly simple method to write. At the end of the interview I was asked to write a method for StringToDouble in the next hour (following the end of the interview) and then to email it to the interviewer. This method had to include thorough error checking and a method to test various cases (invalid characters, double too large, ect).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which design patterns did you use in your projects and why?
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.