I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Applied through my university career site and got a call from Amazon within 2 weeks. First telephonic interview lasted for roughly an hour and I was asked various questions involving Data Structures and Algorithms. Finally I was given the task of implementing and Binary Search Tree (involve all BST operations) and mailing the code of the amazon recruiter.
I cleared the first round and then second telephonic interview was schedule which lasted for hardly 15min (I suppose the recruiter did not like me at all :-|), and then within 48hrs I got rejection email from Amazon.
Good luck to all those applying for job.
ps: Data structures and Algorithms are two very important topics as far as the interview is concerned. Also, go over 'Hash Maps'. Amazon recruiters will certainly ask one question on hash maps.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Implement a BST (involving all operations) and mail the code by the end of the day.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Applied online through the local campus career center. Initially was supposed to have an on-campus interview although due to extenuating circumstances, some of these interviews were canceled. Spoke with recruiting and was later scheduled for two phone interviews scheduled. The hiring process consisted of two back-to-back interviews each 45 minutes in length. The first interviewer was straight down to business and asked me some programming questions while the second one took some time to answer any questions I had about the company before asking me some programming as well as design and behavioral questions. Both interviewers were courteous and gave me the time I needed to solve the presented problems. One piece of advice I would offer is to verbalize your thoughts when attempting to solve a problem so that the interviewers can get a feel for your thought process and nudge you in the right direction if you are a little stumped on a particular question.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
What do you know about Binary Trees? Write a function that outputs the contents of a Binary Tree to a text file. Write a function that parses from a text file and creates a Binary Tree.
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
I have a file containing below matrix information:
3 3
2 0 0
0 0 0
3 0 0
First row represents order of Matrix. 2 -- Start Point 3 -- End point 0 -- a city to be visited 1 -- a city you have no access
Find all possible ways to go from start to end city visiting all 0 nodes and avoiding all 1 nodes. In this case the possible solution is 2
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I have a file containing below matrix information:
3 3
2 0 0
0 0 0
3 0 0
First row represents order of Matrix. 2 -- Start Point 3 -- End point 0 -- a city to be visited 1 -- a city you have no access
Find all possible ways to go from start to end city visiting all 0 nodes and avoiding all 1 nodes. In this case the possible solution is 2