I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2012
Interview
I sent my resume to a software engineer and he forwarded it to the recruiter. About one week later, I received an invitation to the on-site interview. There are more than 20 candidates that day. We eat lunch with employees. After the lunch, we are lead to a conference room to start the interview individually. There are 4 rounds of interview, each lasts 45 minutes. All involve coding on the board.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To copy a linked list. Every node's prev points to the previous node, but the next points an arbitrary node.
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.