I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2011
Interview
2 Phone screens
Combined Phone screen time : 90 mins
1'st Interview:
1. Convert 255 to Hexadecimal
2. Difference b/w Overriding and Overloading
3. Abstract Classes/Interfaces
4. Primitive Data types
5. Write a class (and narrate it on phone with syntax), to find if a linked list is a looped linked list or not. Note that looped LL is different from circular LL.
Total Interview Time: 40-50 mins.
2'nd Interview:
1. Abstract Class and Interfaces
2. Overriding and Overloading
3. Primitive data types
4. Current Job responsibilities
5. Write a class and narrate it on phone with syntax, which has a method with parameter that takes in a list/array of strings. The method should return a list of Integer values, each denoting which position element of the input array is an anagram (compare to all elements in the list).
Total Interview Time: 40-50- mins.
Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Amazon
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.