The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2010
Interview
I met the recruiter during the university career fair. They asked me basic algorithms and data structures questions during the fair itself. These questions were simple, e.g., such traversing a linked list. After this, I had an on-campus interview where the questions were a bit more difficult. For example, they asked me questions on binary trees such as insertion and checking the validity of a bst. Finally, I had the on-site interview where the questions were similar, i.e., asking about algorithms and data structures.
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.