I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I got a phone interview from amazon. The interviewer is very nice. I was asked to introduce my background includin some projects I participated in and he asked some questions for those projects. I was asked a coding question, 2-sum, given an int array and a target number find a pair of numbers, the sum of which is equal to the target number.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2012
Interview
applied on-campus and got and email asking to schedule a phone interview. After the first interview was asked to schedule a second one. both phone interviews both technical in nature and lasted 45 min.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OOP concepts, comparison between datastructures and array manupilation.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2012
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. After initial screening, they invited me to attend interview onsite.
Very friendly interviewers and I had lot of fun during the interviews. Interview consisted of 3 regular 1:1 interview + 1 bar raiser interview - each about 45 mins and about 10 mins for the candidates to ask any questions.
1. Very simple data structure question
2. How do you design type question. Lots of what if this happens and what are the assumptions type question.
3. Bar raiser interview: Another design type of question with lots of open ends.
4. Another design related question with respect to 3G technology.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the interviewers is an expert in 3G technology. He posed me a question related to the inner workings of 3G technology. I am aware of how the internet works, TCP stacks, DNS, DHCP, and all that... I had no idea what kind of protocols are deloyed on 3G.