I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2009
Interview
Overall an excellent experience. First had a technical phone interview lasting about an hour. Then was flown in for a day of onsite interviews and put up in great accommodations. Interviewers were all friendly, highly technical, and questions were all good and leading to good conversations. At the end of the day had a final debrief from a HR person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to design a large distributed system on the spot, despite not having relevant experience. But the interviewer did a great job of setting up the problem and we talked through it and worked out a solution. I enjoyed it.
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.