I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I had a two sessions of 1:1 interviews with two interviewers ( software engineers from amazon).
Each one lasted 45 minutes and the interviews happened in my university . The questions were not trivial nor impossible to answer but they were tricky and you had to think clearly before you answer any question. The first interview session was on data structures in general ( arrays, lists, binary trees, bst , hash-tables). We really did go deep into hash-tables ( I think that's where i messed up). The second interview consisted of programming an algorithm ( design and coding). That part was easier for me. The second interview was really impressed by my performance and from his point of view, he was sure i was going to get an offer. But i think my flop in hash tables ( which I did not know in depth at the time) caused me to lose the offer. Hopefully next year will be better. One advice: prepare for the worse, don't expect anything to be easy. Never give an answer without looking at every angles.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
how do you make sure a hash-table is performing efficiently?
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.