I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
This was a university recruiting. A panel of 4 people came to the university. First we had a screening round in which each candidate was interviewed with one interviewer from the panel. In that each one was give one algorithm/design question. First we need to discuss our idea or design with the interviewer then he asks us to code it up in our the language we are comfortable with.
After you clear that we had another three similar rounds with the rest of the three people from the panel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A variation of the K-nearest neighbour problem, and how do you scale it?
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.