I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2014
Interview
The recruiter contacted me out of the blue over LinkedIn. After chatting with her over phone, I went ahead with the phone interview and then went on to On-Site interview. I did very bad in phone interview. So bad in fact that when I applied again to Amazon after 1.5 years through a friend, he told me that my interview performance was so bad that no hiring manager will ever consider me for SDE II position in Amazon
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked how design system for implementing waitlist for items on Aamzon.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2016
Interview
Two phone interviews, each requiring a computer with internet access and a phone of about 1 hour each. There was also a third, an HR call to setup the in person interview with some chit chat. Before doing the in person interview you need to sign an NDA about the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first was do a moving average with a window. This required working running code, then you had to make it faster and explain big O. (this was a phone screen question)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2015
Interview
The process was quite straight forward. I was contacted via email from a recruiter inviting me to make a 2 hours exercise from my home. I did the following weekend and I did reasonable ok. Even, I was not aware about the platform used and this was a real impact factor in my overall performance. Anyway, even I was assuming that it was the end, the recruiter called me the monday after explain me that i did ok but they wanted to conduct a phone interview. I did and I solved the questions (relatively easy) by phone (mostly coding interview). Then, I was invited to Seattle the week after. I meet with 7 engineers, senior software managers and the hiring manager. Some of the interviews were hard but in average I feel that the interviews were ok. It was a great experience, I met great and smart people and had great technical discussions. That afternoon, they indicated me that I had an offer, so the end of the tale was great :-).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions of the phone interview ( I cannot share the campus interviews) was "given an array of integers, return the maximum sum of the three consecutive integers in the array".