I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2013
Interview
There are two phones calls. One is from the team technical person, the another is from HR. The first man asked me 2 programming problems, and the sencond man asked about my background and projects, then he also asked me a programming problem.
Two of the three programming problems are
1. Reverse evey word in a sentence, for example, reverse "How are you." to "woh era uoy.", including the dot.
2. remove duplicate chars in a char sequences.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I didn't expect the HR to ask one programming problem
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.