I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Urbana, IL) in Mar 2013
Interview
Submit resume online and get contact thru email couple months later. Scheduled a back-to-back phone interview (45 mins each, total 90 mins). However, the interview is cancel due to conflict and scheduled another one which is one weeks later. Both interviewers asked question regarding my past experience and coding problems. They do want you to write code and explain to them line by line. However, the 2 interviewers ask approximately the same question. Both "find duplicate item from string" type question. The interview is too easy for company like amazon. So I guess that's why many people in my cs department who can't actually finish MPs get offer. One thing annoys me is that, when I get an offer, I went to spring break and the deadline is one week later. However, I get an email two days before deadline said that all SDE position is fulled in Seattle. And I can only choose to go to other place or be a SDET. Seriously? They are giving more offers than their positions? So finally I choose an external development center in california AWS team with a raised salary.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you choose to shift from business to computer science when you were applying college? (I mean, no technical question becomes more difficult than this one.)
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2013
Interview
The interview was on campus. There were total two technical interviews. The first one was not that difficult on technical stuff. Normal data structure, array operations questions. But the interview kind of judged me on the factors like communication skills, problem handling, presentation skills, etc. There were some questions about the problems faced in the real world scenario, and I was required to provide some efficient ways to solve that.
The second interview really tested the coding skills and logic development. But the questions were quite reasonable and I think that they were the fair tests for a personal who wants to get into a company like amazon. Overall, the interview procedure was impressive and quite fair.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
print the matrix in spiral format (inside out). Not that difficult, but challenging if you have not heard of the question before (as was the case with me)
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
On campus interview.
2 back to back face to face interview each of 45 mins.
Reverse Linked List.
Write a method which generates a fibonacci series and returns nth fib num.
Find the number which is present odd number of times in an array.