I'm currently a student, and so I applied online through the site. A month after applying I was emailed regarding phone interview, and had two scheduled. Each were scheduled for 1 hour. Overall I don't think the difficulty was too difficult but I messed up on a few questions
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2017
Interview
I've got employee referral for Software Engineer position, but during the process I've changed it to Software Engineer Intern. After a week one of HR specialists contacted me and asked for my availability. Despite I responded within a few minutes, I haven't got the answer for almost 2 weeks. During this time, one of Amazon employees visited my Linkedin profile few times a day (what for?). Finally, they scheduled my interview with one day's notice - pretty bad practice, Amazon.
Technical interview consisted with two parts: behavioural (one hour) and technical (15 minutes).
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I applied through an employee referral. About a month later, I actually started the interview process.
The first round was an online coding/debugging challenge followed by a logic challenge. You can't really study for these; if you've passed an intro to programming class you will pass this.
One day after I took the debugging challenge, I got a link to the second round online challenge. These were two questions similar to what you might see on Hackerrank or Leetcode. The first question was around an easy/medium, and the second one was, in my opinion, a hard. I kind of froze when I couldn't think of a solution for the second question, and I actually ended up literally having no code on it. I chalked that up to a failure, and moved on.
A week later, I was surprised to see that I had moved on to the final round, which was a virtual interview using Amazon's internal online meeting app. The interview consisted of introductions and details about my resume, followed by some basic questions on certain data structures, followed by one medium difficulty programming challenge. This interview went much more smoothly than the first one, and I left feeling confidant. 4 days later, I got the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to implement different data structures, why you would use one over the other
Medium leetcode problems