I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
Interview
University recruiting. Received email from HR recruiter not long after applying. Had two technical phone interviews, 45 min each. When writing code, was expected to talk them through the pseudocode first before writing; then they break down the code and tell you (and ask you) how to improve it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I only remember three of the technical questions I was asked, in addition to the usual general questions about my experience, skills, and work:
1. write code to replace spaces in a string with a * character (don't just use .replace functions though, hehe)
2. given an array with values that increase, reach some max, then decrease, find the max in less than O(n) + test cases
3. given a linked list that represents two numbers (e.g., 1234 represented by 1->2->3->4 and 5678 rep by 5->6->7->8), add the numbers. singly-linked list