I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2010
Interview
The interview occurred in 3 phases - a technical phone screen, a second technical phone screen, and finally a marathon day of in-person interviews. All 3 phases were primarily oriented in a technical direction, and every interview required producing a code sample, so be prepared for that. People were less concerned about what I'd done in the past, and very focused on what I could do right now.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You need to design a system to provide answers to factorials for between 1 and 100. You can cache 10 numbers. How would you arrange/manage that cache, and what is the worst case for lookup on a cache miss?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
