I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
2 phone interviews. Both were coding interviews that lasted for 1 hour. Second interviewer asked for different ways to improvise on the solution. Both the interviewers seemed friendly and accepting. If programming language is said as Java then a lot is asked on Java Collections especially HashMaps. Internal implementation of ArrayLists and Hashmaps are frequently asked by them.
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.