The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2009
Interview
I only went through 2 of the 3 phone interviews. You really need to know your Big-O notation. Understand how a HashMap works. You'l have to write code down on paper and read it back to them over the phone. I had a few easy questions on threading, a question on how I would architect a web application for a car rental company (what would the app do? which objects would we have? I think he wanted to see if I knew what a DAO was, or maybe if I understood MVC).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had a difficult question about a cuboid composed of smaller cubes. How many cubes are there where exactly two faces of the cube are exposed?
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.