I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Aug 2015
Interview
R1 was telephonic technical the person asked about my current role and started with optimizing bits from matrix which follows a pattern. He ask ed also a small script to fetch data from order list file.
R2 was on Oracle SQL including joins and aggregate functions
R2 was on data structures link lists like palindrome check using circular, double link list
R3 was on scripting using Unix log grepping, text processing using awk, etc. Some behaviorial questions.
R4 again similar combination through T1, R1-4
R1 to R4 in a day which took around 45min each in On-site.
R6 is HM which is how any on management stufs ticket handling., Incident management, offline scripting etc.
It took 2 week for confirmation after HM .
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find files in a directory which are modified between 2 dates.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2016
Interview
Took 2 phone screens that included a couple coding questions. Data structures are useful. Architecture was covered. What you would expect for the most part. Be comfortable and try work through any language barrier. Everyone wants to see you succeed it seems so they were very helpful. Very friendly. Free lunch :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Focus on the leadership principles and focus on scripting languages
I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad)
Interview
First round -
First round is technical exam.It covered topics like Programming,pointers,DBMS,OS,Unix.
Next we to write two programs. One question I remember is -Reversing of tree.
Exam is conducted in our college and selected candidates need to attend further rounds at amazon campus
Next rounds-
There are four rounds and all four are technical.They eliminated some people after 1st and 2nd rounds also.I attended all four rounds but I couldn't make to the offer.
The role I attended basically needs Programming ,Troubleshooting, Unix /Shell scripting
So there were questions based on Unix commands(mostly grep,sed,awk) and simple scripts.Also troubleshooting questions were asked but I don't have more knowledge about troubleshooting like what you do when the amazon.in website is not loading properly .How do you find the cause and solve it.?
Coming to programming..they made me wife atleast 2 programmes in every interview
First one is slightly easier and they slowly raise to higher level.Test your thinking, speed and approach.They will also help when you get struck.Also they ask questions and queries from DBMS. And also data structures and algorithms.
Also they have a prepared set of questions on pointers from which they asked 4,5 questions to me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Write a program to find all substrings of a string
2.There is a big string having many spaces between each word.Compress the string so that there is only one space between each word without using other string.
3.There are 2 arrays.We have to merge the arrays by sorting them.