I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX) in Feb 2013
Interview
After I submitted my resume in university career fair. I got 2 round on campus interview. All techinical questions, actually not about the project experience too much. The first round is by AMS manager who seems pretty nice and interested in large scale computing. The interview went nice and I need to write code on a paper briefly about my solution. Second round is by 3 interviews together,45 min each with an engineer. The problems are like link list, priority queue, binary search tree and almost all has been mentioned somehow in career cup or so. Take a look at the interview preparation website is a great help. They seems like the free and open culture in Amazon and they have great passion about their job. Very nice.
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.