I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2011
Interview
I actually had two phone interviews. The interviewers weren't rude, just completely impersonal. I began to question what they actually knew themselves. Questions such as writing a method to print out a number of indeterminate size by printing each digit from left to right, how to traverse a balanced tree. I thought my first interview was horrible, but got a second call. Thought my second interview was good, never heard back. Just as well, as I haven't read any positives about working there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you test if a binary tree were symmetrical and balanced.
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.