I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Telephone, TX) in Feb 2012
Interview
Three phone screens, two back to back, one a few weeks later. I think did poorly on my first interview (nervous), and very well on the second. The third was likely a tie-breaker. No behavioral questions were asked except basic "tell me about a recent project you worked on" chit chat. Questions emphasized data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented analysis.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a customer product review system and make it scalable (describe in terms of algorithms and data structures)?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Tempe, AZ) in Apr 2012
Interview
Two back to back interviews that were 45 minutes long. A sheet is provided for your answers. There are generally two big questions with each interviewer. I forgot one of them. The interviewers provide help and hints whenever one gets stuck or is lost.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Heap Sorting. What data structure do you use to implement it? Time to access and sort. Code it.
Provided two files, one with inventory and the other with warehouses, with the item ID present in both files; code something that would merge these two into one single file using the item ID as reference.