I applied in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2010
Interview
This was for the IMDb team. First contact was an internal recruiter who asked mostly general questions like what are you doing now, what are you looking for, what is your experience etc. I was asked to complete a questionnaire over email about my experience, salary requirements, when I could start. I had two rounds of technical phone screens with developers. After the second, I was asked to complete a programming exercise and send the results back. I was invited in for an all day interview loop. Most of them went well, a couple were 50/50. One was noticeably tough, the guy was a socially awkward fellow who was very difficult to relate to. He made it very difficult to keep flowing, he was almost hostile. I have heard that one strong veto will kill you even if the others loved you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a method which takes x/y coordinates for a point for a graphics program and implement a bucket-fill (change all the surrounding pixels of the same color to the new color)
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.