The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Jul 2012
Interview
Hiring process starts with an online coding test that has 3 programs and time is 1 hour, once you passed it you will be having a phone interview, It depends upon the interviewer the number of question they may ask it ranges from 2-4+
After successfully completing phone interview you will be asked to visit the office for 4 more interview all are technical interview in which they will ask to code the logic in C, C++ or JAVA.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of numbers, nums, return an array of numbers products, where products[i] is the product of all nums[j], j != i.
Input : [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Output: [(2*3*4*5), (1*3*4*5), (1*2*4*5), (1*2*3*5), (1*2*3*4)]
= [120, 60, 40, 30, 24]
You must do this in O(N) without using division.
There were 2 telephonic interviews , the process mostly varies from org to org. The org i interviewed with and worked as an intern has a higher bar so the questions were naturally on the gruelling side in comparison with the rest of the company.
Some of the questions were:
1) A puzzle to find 3 numbers in an array which summed to 0.
2) Find all the anagrams in a file.
3) B-Trees.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) A puzzle to find 3 numbers in an array which summed to 0.