I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2013
Interview
They asked me quite technical questions and common soft skill questions:
- OO programming, data structures, hashmap and queues, computational complexity, algorithms, how to find a not available value in a unordered list;
- Where do you see yourself in five years? what is your job? how do you test your code?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To write a tree structure in a file and to read back again in any programming language.
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.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.