I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
I applied on-line and got a phone call from recruiting department. She arranged a technical interview for me after about 1-2weeks. Interviewer said I can have enough time to solve the problem, but I didn't. He was in a hurry at last moment so I couldn't give my optimal answer to him. Also, he spent too much time to explain about his company and his department. I didn't have to know that before I get an offer!! Since he already spent 20 minutes for that, I had only 40 minutes for the question. In addition, he spent another 10 minutes explaining the question. He was bad in explaining, and didn't prepared enough to ask the question. The question is very easy if you use HashTable, HashMap, or similar data structure. But that's not the way they want.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the numbers occur odd times (e.g. 1,3,5,7,...) in the given array. e.g. { 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4 } You should print 1.
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.