I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied for an internship on Amazon's website. A few weeks later I received an email asking to schedule a phone interview with blocks of times. I replied to it and later received an email indicating the times of 2 45-minute interviews. Both interviews were very similar. The interviewers told me about the company and why they liked working there. I was able to ask them some questions to see how they felt about Amazon. For the technical portions, they would ask the question and I would repeat it back to them to ensure that I understood it. Most of the questions were based off the ones from this website. I was allowed to put the phone down and then type out the answer to the question on a PC using an IDE which made things a lot easier compared to coding it on paper. When I was done coding I sent the code to the interviewer who would review it with me and have me walk them through my thought processes. They would suggest ideas for improvement and seemed very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Revealing the questions asked is a violation of the NDA as someone has already posted. But if you know the questions asked on this website you should do pretty well in the interview.
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.