The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
Applied online and received an email the next week or so asking to schedule a phone interview. First interview was fairly basic, asked some technical questions that ranged from implementing the merge step of the merge sort algorithm to making a relational database. This went onto the second round interview, which was fairly difficult as the programming questions asked there were much harder than before. The third round phone interview was less coding and more conceptual - be sure to know your data-structures and make sure you can generalize them to accompany a wide variety of problems. I got an offer email the next day. :)
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you design a Relational Database for a Computer store?
Hackerrank round first and then two LC questions as the final round (BFS/DFS medium). Also had a behaviour component, testing the leadership principles and how my experiences aligned with them.
Expect one behavioral LP question followed by a leetcode medium or hard for two rounds. Be prepared to answer in depth on the behavioral questions and review LeetCode’s list of questions from Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about what AI platforms you use to help you work more efficiently
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
