I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2010
Interview
Had 3 phone screenings,
process took some time due to my personal activities and business, everyone from amazon was quite nice and helpful, there was no problem to reschedule date/time with HR
questions were challenging but expectable, you need to know a lot from various areas like
java
networking
databases
algorithms
oo design
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
what is TCP/IP?
differences between TCP UDP?
describe TCP IP model.
You have dictionary. How would you design function/system that should return true/false for check if a word is in a database? How would you scale your solution if word db does not fit in memory/disk? How would you scale it to really big db of words that should be located on n computers?
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.