I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2011
Interview
They asked the questions as below:
1. Why do you want to join Amazon?
2. Which part would you like to join? Front end- Back end or more broader side?
3. Difference between Array and Linked list?
4. Retrieval in an array and a linked list?
5. Insertion in an array and a linked list?
6. What if the array is full?
7. Big 0 of insertion in an array and a linked list?
8. WAP to check whether the string is a palindrome?
9. Take an example and support your answer.
10. Big 0 of the program you made just now.
11. Difference between binary search tree and Hash Table.
12. What will be the big 0 of searching in binary tree and hash table
13. Worst case scenario in Binary Search tree
14. How do you solve collision problems in a Hash Table.
15. WAP using two queues, queue 1 and queue 2 and insert into the stack. The three functions that are allowed to use are: Size(), Enqueue(), and Dequeue.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
