I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Sep 2009
Interview
I got an opportunity to interview for them in Hyderabad office from a friend. Through their employee referral process. It was a very long interview process, at least 4-5 interviews.
I was given a 3 programming problems through interview street portal. They are not too hard, not too easy.
one was to familirize myself with the platform,
the other was given coordinates of two rectangles find out if they intersect
and the last one was string search algorithm.
all of them must pass all the test cases given..
after that I went thorough a telephonic interview. he too asked 3 questions.
given an array of 2n+1 numbers in which every number except for one repeats twice.. you have to find out what that one number is.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given an array of lenght 2n+2 in which every number except for two numbers repeat twice each.. and we have to figure out what they are.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was hired during campus placements. We had a written round followed by 4 rounds of interviews. Three were technical relating to problem solving, data structures and object oriented design. The last round was behavioral and in my opinion, they were trying to gauge which team would I be the best fit for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a sequence of integers with the property that any integer is different by +1 or -1 from the previous number, provide a search algorithm for finding an integer.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2013
Interview
Applied online, received an email for scheduling a phone interview. Once the phone interviews were scheduled (which were no issues at all), I had the interview call. Both interviewers called on time were courteous and very helpful. The interview went well.
I had another offer expiring soon the following week and was concerned. So I emailed the recruiter I was in touch with and got my offer decision within hours!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All were expected from the standard view point. Nothing difficult as such.