I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
Applied online and also submitted resume through a job fair. At the fair, I was asked to write a simple program along with simple questions like past projects, interests and experience.
I was called for on-site interview event that consisted of approximately 30 recent graduate students. The on-site interview consisted of 4 1:1 interviews. The interview covered OOP concepts, algorithmic and data structure questions about graphs, linked lists, etc. The difficulty level was quite high, though I felt I knew some variation of the questions asked. There were no terrible surprises. Two of the four interviewers were not even interested in my name. They walked in and started asking me questions directly.
I asked my last interviewer about "Amazon" culture, he was hesitant to directly answer it. I don't know why he did that. He started telling me the company principles and goals.
It was good experience for me and they paid for the tickets and stay at Seattle, So, I was happy with the overall process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is an abstract class? Why is composition better than inheritance?
Difference between abstract class and interface? When would you use interface over abstract class?
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.