I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2011
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter for a position that I applied online. She setup an interview one of the team members from Kindle organisation. He called me at the exact time and asked few question from the resume. With in couple of minute he jumped into technical questions. He asked a question and we need to tell him our initial thoughts about the problem. He ask us to improve the algorithm in terms of time complexity. The discussion goes on inorder to improve the efficiency of algorithm. Then he stops us at a point and asks us to write code in callaboration tool. he will looking at the code we are writing. They dont care about small syntax errors. After couple of days I contacted the recruiter and she said that I was not picked up for an interview. I can understand the reason, I am not that good at algorithms and data structures. So my advice would be going through all the algorithms and datastructures before you apply online. Also I would suggest to work on as many problems as yo u can, so that you can get know multiple ways of solving a problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How will you check to see if two integer arrays have any common elements?
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.