I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Jul 2010
Interview
I got shortlisted for interview via university placement programme. I was called to their office for interviews. I had 4 rounds of an hour each. All rounds focused on skills like Problem Solving, Coding, Data Structures and Algorithms. There were some puzzles in one of the rounds. One thing i want to highlight about coding is they take it seriously. You need to avoid any logical error with even the minutest of edge case and the code needs to be what they call "production ready".
The questions were pretty standard and a quick google search would tell you most of them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to explain my masters thesis work in detail
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
I Applied Online and got a call for onsite interview. There was some interview event going on and so I did not have to appear for Phone interview prior to this interview. I was flied to Seattle and had four rounds of interview. All the questions were focused on Algorithms and Data Structures.
Questions were 1. "Solve a maze", you have a 2D matrix with 1's as blocked and 0's as path. Find a path from one corner to another, backtracking should be allowed.
2. Prove that tree is BST.
3. Ransom note problem - prepare a note(array) from a given magazine(array).
4. Keep track of history of users of Amazon site in pairs of 3 pages that they have consecutively visited.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
"Solve a maze", you have a 2D matrix with 1's as blocked and 0's as path. Find a path from one corner to another, backtracking should be allowed.
2.Prove that tree is BST.
3. Ransom note problem - prepare a note(array) from a given magazine(array).
4. Keep track of history of users of Amazon site in pairs of 3 pages that they have consecutively visited.