The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I was contacted by the HR manager for a telephonic interview. I provided them with a date for the interview. However, there was a mixup with the time of the interview. I was called few minutes earlier than I was to supposed to get the call. The interviewer was friendly. All the questions asked to me were technical and apart from providing a solution I was also asked to calculate their complexities.
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.