I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2008
Interview
Hiring process was painless, it took a while to hear back from the recruiters at times, but they seem to be quite busy with lots of hirings going on so its understandable. I would recommend contacting the recruiters if you dont hear from them in a week.
Company : seems like a fun place to work at, with very smart engineers.
Interview preparation : CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, some SQL (if you have it on your resume), basic unix commands, OO fundamentals and design
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Calculate the nth fibonacci sequence. How would you optimize the algorithm.
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.