I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2009
Interview
Some basic information was requested to be filled out online. Then a series of in person interviews took place on the day of the interview from a varied set of peers both in the same discipline as the position as well as those outside the field. Most were situational white-board code questions regarding solving various problems that seemed mostly germane to the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find longest dominoe train in a generated set of 10-15 dominoes.
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.