I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Jan 2010
Interview
I had 2 phone interviews which involved a number of questions about my education and work experience.
The onsite interview consisted of about 6 interview of 45 minutes, one of which takes place during lunch. These are all white board coding and problem solving questions. The length and number of interviews makes it a bit challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a mutable string (array of characters) of words, how would you reverse the order of the words in the string, not the entire string. This must be done in place, i.e. not using any additional memory.
eg) "Hello World" => "olleH dlroW"
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.