I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
Was contacted by university recruiter requesting an onsite interview. Did not complete any phone screens prior. I think this was either from me handing in my resume at my university's career fair, or just plain luck. Flew me out one week later to Seattle, WA for a day of onsite interviews. Interview structure was different than normal -- work in a group with other interviewees to complete a project. It was a group collaboration project, but coding was done individually. Throughout the entire day, we were to code our individual parts while getting selected for 1 on 1 interviews (twice) during the day. The 1 on 1 interviews were very slack, they just asked what we were coding for that project, nothing in-depth technical. Got a good hotel, good reimbursements, had a good time in Seattle. Got the offer 8 days later. Probably will take it.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (College Station, TX) in Sep 2015
Interview
The interview process was very impersonal. The first email I received entailed a quick survey asking me a little about programming experience, how I fit into programming teams, and more. Then I was invited to take an online technical assessment. This was a two hour session which included a series of logic questions and a programming question. Then, I was invited to take yet another technical assessment which included a "work simulation" and two more programming questions. I was told I was not selected one day following the second technical assessment
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Question 1
Programming Question 1: Write a function to determine the longest palindromic substring of a given string.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Columbus, OH) in Mar 2014
Interview
Online assessment on campus, just a few debug questions on any computer languages you would like to choose. Then several logic questions like GRE verbal. It is very easy for interns.