I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Ithaca, NY) in Oct 2012
Interview
Just had first phone Interview. Asked a bunch of background questions to which I think I talked to much maybe...But then he immediately moved into a simple coding question and then into a pretty tricky one. I tried my best and I'm not sure if I got through both. Afterwards, just chatted about the environment, work, management opportunities, etc which were important to me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Not really difficult - just reverse an integer of arrays and return it.
Given any string, find the index of the start of the first duplicated 3-letter subsequence. For example, in abcabcdef, it would be 0, and abcdefdef would be 3, and then abcdefkajdkffatabcdef would be 0, and abcdefkajdkffatdef would be 3.