The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2011
Interview
One of Amazon recruiter found my resume online and contact me for the openings and set up for the phone interview within a week.
The first phone interview went well. The interviewer is very nice and asked me several technical questions. The whole process lasted about 45 mins. At the end, he asked me to send him the codes of one of interviewed questions to determine.
Couple days later, I received the recuiter email about setting up the 2nd phone interview. The 2nd interviewer seems not have much patience and I was stuck in one of the questions. so it ended quickly.
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.