I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2013
Interview
I was contacted by Amazon recruiter via LinkedIn for an open position in their transportation department. It took them two months (or maybe more) to schedule two phone interviews, and after that they invited me to their Seattle headquarters for the on-site interview. The on-site interview consisted of five interviews including an interview over lunch with a manager. I was interviewed by three engineers, the hiring manager, and the director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None. They were all easy. Standard algorithm and coding questions.
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.