I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
I got an interview with Amazon when they had come to my University. We had a short (10 min) screening interview while taking my resume (About string matching if I remember correctly). I also applied for this position through my Uni's career center. The follow up occurred two weeks later and interview dates were scheduled - the interviews were on campus with Amazon employees. There were 4 rounds (each lasting about an hour). the 1st round was a short resume review followed by 30 min of knowledge questions covering C++, memory management, OS concepts and a coding question (on paper). The remaining three rounds were almost purely the coding type questions that Amazon is famous for and an object oriented design question (Hotel management system).
The questions asked were very very similar to those that are found in career cup - Anyone who practices those questions will be in a favorable position to tackle this interview as they will almost certainly encounter similar questions during the actual interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a 'latest viewed item list' type function for Amazon.
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.