I was contacted by an Amazon.com recruiter without me applying for any position. I assume they found me at Dice.com. I set up a phone interview with the recruiter and scheduled it for later in the week. The interviewer opened with information about what they were looking for, a generalist programmer basically, then asked if I had any questions for him, I did but he couldn't answer them very well since he is not on the team that the job is for. Then he went into questions, first he asked me about garbage collection, I think he was looking for how it works at a low level, but wanted a very general answer. Next he asked about how browsers and the internet work, again very general answer. The programming problem dealt with looking for substrings without using high level language methods, I'll post that question. Then he gave me another chance for questions. About half a week later I was contacted for a second phone interview (they said there could be up to 3 phone interviews) which is scheduled for later this week.