I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Aug 2014
Interview
there was one online test round .. 20 aptitude questions and 2 coding ones... I did one coding question correctly and the second one partially . In aptitude I think I got around 12-13 correctly.
For the 2nd round they called all the selected students to their office, and it was a pool campus interview (students from more than one campus).
there were 3 interviews, all absolutely technical and focused on Data Structures and Algorithms. The only non technical question I was asked was the first question in my first interview which was "Tell me something about yourself"... thats all ... no other non technical question in any round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were difficult but they were not looking for absolute answers , they focused on the approach, and once you have an algorithm for the problem You need to code it and explain.
So, it was kind of tough but they were supportive. And its not that you need to get your answers correct but you need to think out of the box.
there were 2 questions in each round ,and each round lasted for about an our.
from personal experience I can say, don't give up just becoz it looks difficult, becoz I got almost no answer correctly But still I got selected for the fourth round. "The bar raiser round".... 6 out of 29 people made it to the fourth round, which will be scheduled some day in the next 2 weeks.
they said we wil either have a job or at least the internship.
I took a test online with 3 coding questions within a 40 minute time frame. print out a program that calculates peoples grades. that's one of them, I don't remember the rest. I got through that and got an email saying they would fly me to Washington!
They flew me down to Washington for an interview set up hotel and pretty much all the accommodations (i.e. food, taxi service), Apparently they have a lot of interviewees according to the taxi drivers. They look for the best of the crop.
I went to the interview the next day. They took me through 5 rounds of interviews. Know your Big O notation, know how to sort through a relational database, algorithms and especially know your data structures( LinkedLists, trees, etc.) I can't remember the rest of the questions specifically...
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2014
Interview
Applied online through their career website. Got an email from the recruiter the next day. She set up an online timed coding assessment. The questions were:
1) Given an int number in bits, format it into exactly 3 digits (with a decimal) and add a G for gigs, M for megabytes K for kilobytes and B for bytes.
2) Given two arrays of integers, create a third array with the element in each position in the first array multiplied by every element in the second array except for the element at the same index in the second array.
Passed that. On to phone screen. Questions straight out of Cracking the Coding Interview (book):
1) Rotate a 2D array 90 degrees clockwise, in-place without using a second 2D array
2) Design a chat server
Flew out to Amazon in Seattle:
First Interview) Given an array of integers sorted in ascending order, return a list of all elements that have the difference of 2 (for example 2 and 4, or 5 and 7).
Second Interview) Behavioral. Tell me about the most challenging task. Hardest bug.
...Lunch break
Third Interview) Given a bitmap, find the largest size of adjacent 1's.
Fourth Interview) Given a sorted array, return a set of all ranges in the array. For example [0,1,2,4,6,7,8] has ranges 0-2, 4-4, and 6-8.
Fifth interview) Design a furniture store. (It was very hard to understand the girl interviewing me, not because she had bad english, but because she just wasn't able to articulate what she was asking. She was obviously new and nervous).
Sixth interview) Design an airplane tracking system.
Got an email the next week (Interview was Friday, got email following Wednesday) that I did well with the simple solutions and got everything right, but struggled with the more difficult solutions, which I should have gotten easily given my years of experience. So no offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a bitmap, find the largest size of adjacent 1's.