I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2012
Interview
Got a phone interview. Basic CS questions on code optimization and a couple of quick runs through search time with big O notation. I did the online collaborative programming section in VB as that was the language for most of my programs in my course of study. Interviewer said that I was the only person he had ever seen use VB in the interview (this was said in such a way that I took it as not good). As I am a CIS major, this interview was more difficult than I anticipated because it covered more of the code optimization aspects of the discipline that are not stressed on the CIS side of the house.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class?
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.