I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
The hiring process is extremely quick. I had a phone interview with HR, another phone interview the next day with a dev, and flew out the next Friday for an on-site. The entire process was very professional, and I was delighted that at the end I hadn't spoken to a single person with terrible English speaking skills (as is common in the industry).
The interviews are *extremely* easy for a top-tier tech company. Sadly I think they're far too easy, and a lot of not-so-good engineers get through.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The "most difficult" question I had was finding the intersection of two arrays. Seriously. The rest were even easier. I'm not kidding.
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.