I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Three phone interviews before I accepted a position with another company. The interviews involved answering rapid fire technical questions regarding algorithms, data structures and test strategies. During this process, I had several interviews with another large company and was offered a position, which I accepted. Questions included when would someone use an abstract or virtual class, how would you test a web page where users would input payment information, questions around object oriented programming (polymorphism, inheritance etc). The position sounded very interesting and I have friends working at Amazon who love it there. However the phone screening process was a bit drawn out and the questions asked were textbook in nature and didn't hone in on my depth of experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When would you use an interface, a abstract class, a virtual class.
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.