I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
My friend helped me submitted my resume, and then I got a call from a recruiter in three days. The recruiter helped me schedule my first round phone interview. My interviewer was a software engineer. In the beginning of the interview, he asked some general questions about my current projects and then moved to technical questions. He asked me to implement a function to print out all the permutations of an input string. I completed it and time was up. In one more week, I got an second round phone interview which is scheduled in next week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a function to print out all the permutations of an input string
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.