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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
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the phone interview. The interviewer poped up serveral brain teasing questions. And i thought i did good in two of them while not good in the last one. It's weird that they still ask brain teasing questions for experienced candidates.
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how much would you charge for washing all windows in Seattle.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
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The interview felt very one-sided. I was unable to get a clear idea of the position that I was interviewing for. I got the job title and vague descriptions of the team and what it did, but the answers to my questions felt avoided. Besides that the questions asked were typical white-board programming questions about algorithms and data structures.