I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2011
Interview
It was a standard Amazon interview process. I could not get past the phone round itself. The position that I interviewed for was in the Cloud team. The questions basically ranged from how a normal process works to multi-processing and cloud computing.
The interview call was a stroke of luck, I had a resume that was just floating around in one of the job seeking websites and I got a call from the recruiter out of the blue.
The initial part of the interview was the friendly chit chat as to what they ( the team ) do, followed by questions about my resume and my work experience so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Simplest way to make the same change to thousands of html files stored in a Unix environment. Should have been able to answer it but dint.
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.