I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2012
Interview
I have taken two phone interviews. The first one goes well. The interviewee just asked some background, and then asked the coding questions.
1.. given a number, find two numbers from an array so that the sum is equal to that number;
2.. given a number, find three numbers from an array so that their sum is equal to that number;
During the second interview, the interviewee directly asked the coding problems.
1. Given a file which contains 4 G integers, find an integer that doesn't exist in the file with a 4M memory computer
2. Given a sentence, and an output, write a function that takes the sentence and output the given results.
I didn't do the first question well, and for the second one, I make some small mistakes. So I finally failed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1.. given a number, find two numbers from an array so that the sum is equal to that number;
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.