I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
Nothing really out of the ordinary. A little bit of preparation could have helped.
- Big O notation for Collections
- Design an object model for furniture company, hint: composition is the key
- Design data model for an e-shop and write sql (yes, over the phone) to retrieve customers/orders
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a data model for a Furniture company where each item needs to have a Type and a Material facets to it.
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.
