I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2013
Interview
Highly technical. Programming questions with live preview. Algorithms and optimization. Challenging problem solving, etc. I didn't expect the question to be that deep given the background I have. It's advisable to go through the college cd textbook and prepare.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Amherst, MA) in Mar 2015
Interview
I applies through college career fair.There were two rounds of interviews.Each round has two questions.All the questions were purely programming based questions.The questions were mostly concentrated on data structures and algorithms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Write a program for Fibonacci series
2.Write a program to find a string in a page of text.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2015
Interview
Was contacted by recruiter to apply for position. Initial interview was an online coding and skill/personality assessment. I was invited the following week to an in-person group interview session which was focused on coding. Overall, nothing was too challenging and ample time was provided, but some careless mistakes cost me on the coding parts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I can't go into specifics, but I thought the first part of the interview wasn't too hard. Tip for coding: go for the simplest solution. As for the skill assessment, GRE quantitative reasoning tests will help, but I thought that enough time was given that you don't really need to prepare for a speed test. I would recommend just writing whatever programs you would normally for fun for the in-person interview. As long as you're comfortable in one of the common languages, it's not too bad.