I applied in-person. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Ereván, ) in Mar 2013
Interview
Hiring process started from Linked In, they contacted me first via email, we confirmed time for phone interview.
I was interviewed by 2 Indians whose English was so terrible that I couldn't even understand their email address.
questions was mostly easy main focus was on OOP.and data structures
There was 2 programing assignments and few theoretical questions.
Average time of each interview was about 1 hour.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was no difficult questions. The main problem was that I hardly hear them, voice quality was very poor and Indian English is something that worse than Chinese
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.