The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2010
Interview
Had 2 phone interviews, one of them had questions on algorithms and the other on Datastructures and coding.
Was called for 1:1 interviews at their Seattle dev center. The first one was about designing concepts and classes, and also UI for the Kindle. Free form discussion mostly.
Second interview was with the prospective manager. Somehow this was what went wrong. We just did not understand each other and the questions were on things like "How would you work with someone who is not doing any work and has no interest in doing the work assigned to him" etc. One technical question after that which I found answerable but got confused midway even though I had the idea right.
Last 3 interviews were all technical and the experience was very positive.
They did not make me an offer. I believe the one with the manager was the make or break one and I screwed it up bad.
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.