I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2008
Interview
Hiring process was painless, it took a while to hear back from the recruiters at times, but they seem to be quite busy with lots of hirings going on so its understandable. I would recommend contacting the recruiters if you dont hear from them in a week.
Company : seems like a fun place to work at, with very smart engineers.
Interview preparation : CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, some SQL (if you have it on your resume), basic unix commands, OO fundamentals and design
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Calculate the nth fibonacci sequence. How would you optimize the algorithm.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
