I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Applied through my university career site and got a call from Amazon within 2 weeks. First telephonic interview lasted for roughly an hour and I was asked various questions involving Data Structures and Algorithms. Finally I was given the task of implementing and Binary Search Tree (involve all BST operations) and mailing the code of the amazon recruiter.
I cleared the first round and then second telephonic interview was schedule which lasted for hardly 15min (I suppose the recruiter did not like me at all :-|), and then within 48hrs I got rejection email from Amazon.
Good luck to all those applying for job.
ps: Data structures and Algorithms are two very important topics as far as the interview is concerned. Also, go over 'Hash Maps'. Amazon recruiters will certainly ask one question on hash maps.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Implement a BST (involving all operations) and mail the code by the end of the day.
Surprisingly easy — I expected tougher questions, but the coding round felt more like a warm-up. The main challenge was a DSA problem about counting islands in a 2D grid, which led to a discussion on DFS versus BFS and handling large grids. Funny enough, I had revisited that exact type of question while prepping on PracHub, which made me feel more confident. The interview wrapped up with a behavioral round, and I accepted an offer, but ultimately decided to decline it for another opportunity. Overall, it was a smooth experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Number of Islands — given a 2D grid of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number of connected islands. Walk through DFS vs BFS, and discuss how to avoid revisiting cells (in-place mutation vs visited set) and what changes if the grid is huge and must stream from disk.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
Um teste de código online, se aprovado, vai para o loop. O loop é 4 entrevistas seguidas, duas em inglês e duas em português. 3 entrevistas técnicas de código, todas as 4 têm pergunta de liderança.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Pergunta historicas baseada nos principios de lideranca da amazon.
