I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
The interviewer was friendly and started telling about amazon.com and later told me to explain about my background. Later ask me to describe challenging role faced in latest project. OOPS concepts, UML diagrams, and implementation of that diagram. Most of time where around the class diagram, implementation and some scenario based on the UML diagram. He asked me to design Company Organization UML diagram (include all methods) with following constraints:
1. Manager can have some manager or workers reporting to him
2. No body should report to workers
3. Include functionality like ADD, Search, Remove Employee (how and where you will implement these methods).
He told me that I can expect second round with hardcore coding.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
I am your student can you please explain me HashTable? What is chaining?
Please give example.
There are 199 elements in array. It has only one distinct value? How will find this distinct value? Also for solution please tell about O(n)?How can you make it more efficient?
Design a generic UML diagram for an organization that can be implemented for all the companies (from small to large)? Include reporting structure, adding, search, and removing employee.
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.