The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
My interview consisted of two phone interviews separated by a week and then a final contact a week later telling me that they were going with other candidates. The interviews focused primarily on programming and general development knowledge.
The questions are listed below.
The interviewers were very helpful in describing the problem if you didn't understand the specifics and would ask you to look at specific areas of your code and see if you could improve it. All-in-all it was a good if stressful experience. I am not certain exactly what qualities they are looking for, but I would suggest a month of brushing up on your algorithms and general CS knowledge before you apply unless you are some sort of coding god. Good luck!
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
The difference between and interface and an abstract class
Using only putchar how would you print out the ascii values for each digit in an integer. For example if the integer was 123, then you would want to print the ascii values for 1, 2, and 3.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2011
Interview
I had applied for the position online and was contacted by the HR for a phone screen. I had three phone interviews but got a rejection after the third interview. Two of the interviews were very encouraging but didn't have a good experience with the third one. The interview consisted of some conceptual interviews and some programming too. Even though I received a rejection, I would say that it was a good learning experience
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Write a program for the longest possible palindrome and write test cases to break it.