I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Herndon, VA) in Oct 2014
Interview
The screening was much easier than I expected. The interviewer didn't ask too many difficult questions-just a bunch of general questions on data structures and big O.
He asked me to write some code to reverse the characters in a string and then some code to reverse words in a string. After that, it was just verbal conversation on how I'd go about solving various problems and some resume questions.
I got radio silence after that. Other jobs are still under consideration but I'm doubtful based on the lack of response.
Talked about what they do at their office and the various software they develop to monitor their servers and routers. He mentioned it is interesting if you like to learn about networking or you already know a lot about it. He didn't sound too excited.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a set of billion or more stars, explain how you will find the closest k stars.
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.