I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
5 tech interviews in the loop for different types of question including coding, behavior, and design, data structure and OO design. They focus on leadership principle.
Interview has a bar raiser who is very important
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2015
Interview
I applied online and was prompted to take an online code challenge after a few days. I was only allowed to use their testing site to answer the coding questions and was not allowed to consult the internet for anything. The coding challenge was set at 75 minutes and allowed me to pick between a few languages to use. None of the languages had third party libraries available to make solving the problems similar to how most do while programming on the job. There were a few days between every step of the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sort a set of linked nodes; Determine if a string has balanced brackets. Studying up on what you learned in your algorithm courses in college will really help with this interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2015
Interview
I was first contacted by a recruiter from Amazon who after asking me to complete a questionnaire. After this, the recruiter organized a technical interview by phone. A week later the recruiter contacted me again and organized another technical phone interview. After the second phone interview I was invited to fly to Seattle for on-site interviews.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write code for a simple implementation of a hash map.