I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Nov 2013
Interview
Was sent a coding test with a question whereafter I was invited to come down to the London Development center for a on-site interview. The interview started directly with a whiteboard coding question involving a game (whose name I've forgotten sorry), after that there was a bit time for standard competency questions. It took one hour in total. Afterwards we were given a tour of the office. There was two interviewers who both had their nose down their laptop for the majority of the interview typing away notes (i presume) which was a bit of a distraction.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Writing code on a whiteboard is a bit of a challenge.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2013
Interview
I applied online through the Amazon jobs website. After a few weeks I got an email from a recruiter asking me to have 2 back-to-back interviews on a day of my choosing. The interviews were an hour long each and consisted of questions about basic data structures, their runtime complexities and some basic coding questions. One interviewer asked me one coding question and the other asked me two. All three were fairly easy and standard questions and shouldn't be anything too surprising if you have read some of the other reviews (They were in that same ballpark). After the two interviews concluded I was told by my recruiter that I would hear back from him within two weeks time. I got a response a weeks after with an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two different strings, find the common characters between the two. For example if string A is "hello" and string B is "elbow" the common characters would be ['e', 'l', 'o']. Give a method that returns unique or duplicate entries.