Amazon Software Development Engineer, interview questions

2 phone screens and 6 hr site interview. Basic areas of they test your skills are 1) Data structures and algorithms 2) objective-oriented design 3) linux/shell knowledge, Regex 4) designing large systems and scaling. Language is not really important but they expect you to know at least one of C++, Java or Ruby.

Applied for a Software Development Engineer online. Got an email after some days from the recruiter asking some things such as: -Why do I want to work for the company -What is my preferred programming language -Implement function to check palindrome. A few days after I responded we arranged a phone interview for which I didn't have time to prepare as much as I would like. Some of the questions were the same as found here, others not. It lasted about 1h 20 mins. The interviewer was very helpful, nice and overall pleasant.