I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Did not apply. got a cal from a recruiter. they had got my resume from my university career website. asked me my available data out of two given. no initial phone interview. called onsite. grueling day starts at 9am ends at 5.30 pm. just one coding problem for the whole day to solve with your group of candidates,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just one problem to solve for the whole day with a group of candidates.
1)Find LCA given 2 nodes in a binary tree
2)Merge two sorted linked lists
3) Print a substring of a given string given the source and destination indices
4) Check whether a given tree is BST or not.
5) regarding Hashing technique
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
This was a phone interview...was asked to use their collab edit tool where I was asked to write code in language of my choice. The overall process was good and smooth. Make sure you are well versed with algorithmic questions and most of all the use of a hash maps. Another thing be confodent,. The interviewer also asked me a question on regular expressions something I hadn't worked on for long, but they expect u to be vocal and explain what you are thinking.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Reverse words in a string I.e given "I love glass door" make it "door glass love I"