I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2010
Interview
Got the interview after meeting with Amazon's representatives at a career fair at my university. The representative at the booth asked me some technical questions about what I would do to scale a large system. Next, I was emailed an offer for an interview for a summer internship. I met with two interviewers about one week later. The first interview asked questions about some of my side projects, and I was asked to solve a few problems on a piece of paper: convert a relative path to an absolute path in linear time. I then met with another interviewer who was an alum of my university, and she asked me how I liked a few classes I was taking that she also took as a student. She asked a question about finding all of the non-concentric palindromes in a string. I came up with a bad n^3 solution, and she mentioned that it was possible in linear time. Our interview came to a close, and about an hour later, I realized the solution and emailed it to her. Got an offer about one week later! Really fun summer internship.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find all of the non-concentric palindromes in a string. Do so in linear time.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2024
Interview
Technical and Behavorial exams. 45 minutes technical, 15 behavorial. Focused on data structures and algorithms. Sliding window, graph, bfs, dfs, etc. Focus on amazon leader principles. Be on time, use amazon chime.