I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2010
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter who said her hiring manager was interested in my resume. There were 2 phone screens and then I was invited for onsite interview. The feedback was very quick - I got a call less than 24 hours after each round of interview to proceed to the next step. The whole process could have finished in a month if I didn't have other scheduling conflicts. The interviews were all technical and test a wide breadth of algorithms from my undergrad days, as well as some design. You interview with 1-2 teams during the onsite. I interviewed with 2 teams, 6 interviews in total - 2 with hiring managers and 1 with the famous "bar-raiser". One of the hiring manager interviews was over lunch.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was there a time you went against the advice of your supervisor / advisor?
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.