I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2013
Interview
At first, it's a phone interview. but not got phone call at the appointed time until waiting for another 10 minutes.
The questions in phone interview is for algorithm test, and the first one is to revert a sentense which is a common one. Unfortunately my answer not accepted by interviewer, so did not pass the phone interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2013
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter the day after I applied through the Amazon careers page, and he booked a phone interview with a hiring manager. The interview was 1 hour long. It started with my experiences and for the coding part I was asked to solve a problem that involves some data structures.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I solved the problem in Java, but the hiring manager was more into C or C++, and didn't have much knowledge in Java.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2014
Interview
Asked for a 90 minute phone interview after finding my resume online.
The call followed the pattern described by others here. There were several technical questions of medium difficulty. I was asked to write code for one in the language of my choice using a shared web page.
There was also a general discussion of an OO modelling problem.
There were no surprises or gotchas. The interviewer was not trying to be tricky. It was like an discussion you
might have at work about solving any problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical problems were of medium difficulty and not unsolvable. Just designed to show that you know how to think about software problems.