I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
Applied through the college recruiting for Amzn. Had two rounds of interview. The first interviewer focused on design pattern questions- why this specific design over the other design pattern for this particular question. The second interviewer asked me questions on the projects, asked a few questions on hashtables, Array manipulations. This was basically a problem solving and algorithms round- asked me a variation of knapsack problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Apparently the interviewer had also done a similar kind of a project at school so he started digging deep into the project. This was a search engine project. He asked me about page rank etc.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.
2 rounds:
1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences
Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant
2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Pretty difficult OA didn't need to get full score. One round technical interview with SDE. Interview was pretty easy, most people I knew at school and friends ended up passing the interview. Took about 1 month to hear back after interview
