I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2011
Interview
4 Amazon recruiters came to my school for a week to host interviews with candidates who had been selected from online submissions. After the first interview, they called me back and said they wanted to continue the interview process, so I can back in the next two days for a grand total of 4 interviews - one with each of the recruiters. The recruiters were fair and asked questions which any graduating software engineer should be able to answer. They consisted mostly of technical questions involving data structures and binary trees in particular, with a couple personal questions mixed in, such as "what interests you about Amazon?" or "tell me about this project on your resume".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Probably the most difficult question they asked me was, he put a binary tree on the whiteboard and I had to write a function that would find if the tree was symmetrical or not. Anyone who's familiar with data structures and recursion should be fine with this, just don't freak out when they propose the question.
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.