I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2010
Interview
I received an email form a HR from amazon about a software developer position available in seattle,WA. I agreed and HR setup a time for the interview. The interviewer called exactly at the agreed time. The interview questions included more of problem formulation with data structures and algorithms. The whole interview lasted for about 1 hour. After the interview the interviewer asked me if there is something i want to know about Amazon. I asked him some questions about the process of development they follow. On the whole the interviewer was very professional, calm and helpful in providing the details about the questions i asked.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to resolve hash collisions in a hashing table?
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.