I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2012
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. After initial screening, they invited me to attend interview onsite.
Very friendly interviewers and I had lot of fun during the interviews. Interview consisted of 3 regular 1:1 interview + 1 bar raiser interview - each about 45 mins and about 10 mins for the candidates to ask any questions.
1. Very simple data structure question
2. How do you design type question. Lots of what if this happens and what are the assumptions type question.
3. Bar raiser interview: Another design type of question with lots of open ends.
4. Another design related question with respect to 3G technology.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the interviewers is an expert in 3G technology. He posed me a question related to the inner workings of 3G technology. I am aware of how the internet works, TCP stacks, DNS, DHCP, and all that... I had no idea what kind of protocols are deloyed on 3G.
i first submitted my application via their online website; afterwords, they contacted me for an onsite interview at my college. then after two interviews on campus, i got an internship and then i got another internship the next year then i accepted them as fulltime.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
they asked a few technical programming questions and i think the hardest thing was thinking of various ways to raise an integer a to the power b.