I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Was recruited by one of their recruiters. Talked to them and was initially very exited for the position until I made it to this site and saw other reviews on the questions asked and process. I discovered that this probably wasn't the position I was looking for, but I went ahead with the first interview anyway. Their interview process seems very 'old school' to me and not very conducive to hiring great employees. The questions were all about algorithms and data structures, and nothing really about past work, or real world experience. This was stuff I learned during my college career (the stuff I ignored thinking I'd never use it in the real world). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt though, this was a software engineering position, which really isn't my interest or expertise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing really, all pretty standard computer science questions. Study other reviews on here and you should be fine.
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.