I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I submitted my resume on University career fair in early February, and took two phone interviews by two different interviewers in March 14th.
The first interviewer only asked me three programming questions, including Palindrome, Sorting and design an image scaling function. It took about 45 mins. He asked my to write the code via a shared document editor.
The second interviewer asked my background, data structure questions and two programming questions, he didn't let me use any editor, he asked me to write down the code on a paper, then read it word by word. Since I am not a native speaker, I found that I was not able to pronounce some of the symbols, I had to describe some pieces of my code for him. Also 45 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write down your code on a paper, and read it to me through the phone.
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.