I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Apr 2012
Interview
I was contacted by the recruiter regarding a job opportunity for SDE position in Bangalore location.
The inter view process consisted of an online written test & 2 face to face rounds .
Concentrate on data structures & algorithms, binary trees in particular is a very popular topic.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2012
Interview
Applied a SDE position online. An HR lady contacted me in a week and scheduled the first phone interview. The interviewer asked me to say a little about my background. Then asked questions focused on algorithm, time and space complexity, and a ransom note problem. The second interviewer asked some questions of hash table.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied using the university system and the interview was scheduled through that.
There seemed to be some problems with email communication since I would occasionally fail to receive emails that were sent to applicants.
There were a lot of interviews on campus (I think they interviewed at least 50 people within 2 days) so everything was well-automated. The format was 2 back-to-back 45 minute 1-1 interviews with developers from different teams.
In general, I would recommend brushing up on basic algorithms and also reading up on Amazon services, especially all the web and cloud systems.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Serialize (flatten) and de-serialize a binary tree. First describe the approach, then write the code.