I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2011
Interview
I was contacted via a recruiter who had previously contacted me regarding a position to which I did not apply, however this position was more relevant so I applied to the position and a phone screen was scheduled.
The phone screen only lasted an hour and included a technical quiz of object oriented principles followed by two programming problems which were addressed via a shared screen.
It is critical to understand that Amazon.com lets every team handle their own hiring, so experiences can greatly differ from team-to-team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between abstraction, encapsulation, and inheritance?
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.
