I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter for a position that would involving refactoring existing code from C/C++ to Java and other technologies for internal use as well as tools for customer (seller) use. The technical interview was challenging but nothing a competent software engineer shouldn't be at least familiar with. Big O notation, data structures (specifically trees, binary trees, and tree searching algorithms) are a must to confidently proceed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a set of unique integers except one, that has at least a duplicate, create a function to identify which integer has the duplicate entry
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.