The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Orange, CA) in Jan 2011
Interview
Applied on-line, set phone interview:
First phone interview: talked about resume; past project, concept design, technologies, he asked so many question related with my projects; then he asked OOP - OOD; then shared document and gave me four function and asked to choose any 1 to complete, all of them were simple: int to string: palindrome; count max char. appeared in given string; he was cool and friendly.
Second phone interview: He was busy in meeting so reschedule on same day, he talked in-detail of projects design: and core logic part of all my projects one after one, He planned to ask programs, we didnt get time: but he was so impressed and he liked all my works and answers.
Take-home project: As I expected but without any notification they gave me simple problem to solve and willing to submit within 2 days, I was busy in other work so 1st day wasted: he expected some questions from me: and I asked some, as problem was so simple, I asked view questions: My solution was perfect as he want: submitted final answer.
End-up with no offer :( may be I asked few questions and he wanted some more
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
integer palindrome: give character which appeared max in string
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
