I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2010
Interview
Was a very typical interview when it came to the questions asked, the normal ridiculous puzzles that fill up software engineer interviews (which in this one's honest opinion, are complete garbage when accessing an individual for a engineering position). 3 people, all asking similar questions with some being more interested while others showing very little personality when it came to the interview. Also, the recruiter was obvious that he was trying to fill a quota when the offer was presented.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to display the permutations of a string
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2010
Interview
The hiring process is one of the quickest I've seen. Campus Interviews were held for 3 days consecutively and the decision was made 2 days after the 3 days of interviews. The interviewers were really nice people and help you with the problems.
An important advice would be if you do a mistake during a question, make sure you point that out and tell the interviewer why this is not a good solution and propose an alternative solution. This was something appreciated by my interviewers.