The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
A friend sent in my resume. I had a phone interview within the week. It was a one-hour interview with a software engineer on the team I was applying for. The first question was, "Tell me about an interesting book you read recently." Then we discussed my past experience (I described my master's thesis research), and then we moved on to coding questions. Finally we discussed the position and working at Amazon in general.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Extract the N largest floating point numbers from a large file of floating point numbers.
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.