I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Penn State University, PA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Attended the career fair at my school. Met with one of the recruiter's that was there. We talked for a bit and he took my resume. Got a call later to come in for a one on one interview the following day.
Interview was held in the career center on campus.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Main question was verifying whether a binary tree was a BST, given the function header that looked like public boolean isBST(root). He stated no other functions could be created and that child nodes did not have links to their parents.
HR interview, then I had 1 45 minute coding round with 10 minutes behavioral and 35 minutes coding. Behavioral round was typical star format questions probing at leadership principles. Ex. Tell me about a time you took initiative and it didn’t work out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.
La entrevista para el puesto de Software Engineer Intern en Amazon fue únicamente en una prueba técnica online con ejercicios de programación y algoritmos, tipo LeetCode. El nivel era alto para unas prácticas, y la plataforma funcionó correctamente durante la evaluación.
Online assessment 1 hour 2 system design questions difficult as well
1 Final round interview 25 min behavioral and 35-40 min technical questions 1-2 leet-code medium difficulty questions data structure analysis questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazon Leadership principle for behavioral section
