I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in May 2011
Interview
Amazon visited my campus for interviews. They conducted a written test with multiple choice questions. The questions were based on basic computer science and math. The candidates who passed this round were given a programming problem. The candidates who cleared this, had five rounds of interview. After this, offers were made to the selected candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe red-black trees. Explain how to implement insert and delete functions on red-black trees.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
In the month of march, I had a phone interview from amazon. In phone interview they asked me about my background and some what technical questions. and then they settled up an onsite on 2nd April. At onsite, I had 5-6 interviews each about 45 minutes. It was very good experience.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
find a anagrams of given string from the paragraph.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Sep 2011
Interview
Online test , followed by onsite .
During onsite they gave me 3 problems to solve and later I had 3 interviews of which 1 interview was only technical where I was asked to code 1 problem . Online test had 5 programming questions to be solved in 2 hrs . The question are mostly based on fundamentals of computer science mainly composing of data structures like trees , lists , strings and arrays .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to convert a Binary Tree into a singly linked list by traversing level by level.