I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2014
Interview
I applied for job at Amazon in Netherland in The Hague.
After one month I received an email of confirmation that I was selected for the first stage of the interview.
First stage was a online coding test, solving two algorithms in the language of your choice with time limits of 70 minutes for both tasks. Tasks aren't so hard, even if you don't have practice of solving algorithms you still have enough time to solve it. I also tried to solve algorithms with better efficiency. As I remember one task was to reverse each word in a sentence with the possibility of very large input string.
After I submitted solved algorithms, one week later I was contacted by their recruiter to arrange two technical phone interview. Both interviews were on the same day by the two hour gap.
On first technical interview, first step was to connect to given url. On URL was shared text editor. My task was to setup conceptual class structure (OOP), for describing on form data and their types with the possibility of validating those data. And after that there was some question about my current role. And last five minutes I have a chance to ask them a couple of questions.
Second interview was a little harder because the questions were about scalability of database and JVM level. Specially about database scalability when I need to describe architecture and how to organize and connect databases. It was quite hard explaining it without a whiteboard.
And at the end there were couple minutes left for me to ask some questions.
One week later I'll get a response from their recruiter that I didn’t passed to the next stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
As I mentioned, some question about database scalability.
Good interview process overall. The questions were mostly focused on general software engineering knowledge, with a strong emphasis on AI concepts. The interviewers were professional, and the process was well organized.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design and a lot of questions “imagine the situation”
Leet code question medium to gard then they snack you with a web app that you have to debug with a Very limited ai assistant that won't give you the answer but will read the files and tell you what they do
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leet code and assisted debugging and 15 pillar of Amazon leadership questions
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
first round was leetcode for 1hour, got easy 2 questions
then final round has 2 leetcode session and 1 system design and 1 lld session. each session has also leadership principle.
Leetcode questions was easy-medium.
Leadership principle was hard
I had issue with screensharing it wasted 10-15 min during the first round of interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
leet code - array and string questions. easy and medium level