I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2014
Interview
I applied through amazon.com/jobs in University Recruiting. And then they ll give you a online test with 3 coding questions to be finished in 1.5 hrs, not so hard, and there might be answer on Internets. Then the next step is onsite interview, Amazon will provide flight and hotel stay and also reimburse all your spend.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It's a Maze solver question. You r given a maze (up to you to design in any data structure you want), a start point, a end point. And you r required to find only one path from start to end. The time efficiency of your method is the only concern in this situation
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
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Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.