I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2015
Interview
The phone screen takes around 45 mins. First 5min is the interviewer's introduction, about himself, about the group he is working on. The next 30 - 35mins, I was asked to answer two coding questions. The first one is required two solutions. The last 5min is the time to ask questions.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2014
Interview
It was pretty straightforward, in my case. An online assessment that involved critical reading, math as well as logic problems (plain standardized testing), a coding portion that was pretty straightforward, and then I got the opportunity to fly up to Seattle. At the on-site interview, we had 4 straight rounds, each about 45 minutes long, of one-on-one interviewing. They covered what I thought were standard topics, such as Big O, sorting, data structures, etc. There were design as well as code-oriented problems, all of them definitely study-able. Then a few weeks later, they emailed me with the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Big O - Best/Worst-Case Runtimes, Space, etc. for operations of basic data structures, like Maps, Lists, Trees.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Apr 2015
Interview
They contacted me through email and asked if I'm interested in new opportunities. Immediately, I responded back and within couple of hours they scheduled my first phone screen technical interview which is a week away. The interview started with asking about me and "Why amazon" questions. Little bit of difference between data structure questions and Object oriented design questions. Finally we started the coding part. I was little bit nervous about live coding which I have not done before. Coding in notepad helps a lot for interview preparation. The questions are not difficult at all. Very easy questions, anyone who has taken programming 101 can crack it easily. One mistake I did in coding was, I didn't take care of all test cases and only focused on happy path.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Count the number of words in a string without using any libraries or splitting the sentence or using regular expressions.