I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2009
Interview
It took about a month for the HR staff to actually admit to having received my resume, and another month for them to get around to agreeing to interview me, which was aggravating. There were two hour-long phone screens and an extensive in person interview (with seven different people, each one-on-one), which lasted an entire workday.
The interview process focused a lot more on problem-solving than on reciting one's brag sheet or answering inane "if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?" questions, which made for a very nice change of pace from other interviews. That said, the problems presented were very challenging -- in the best possible way. I didn't get the offer, but they did say they'd keep my resume on file and referred me internally for a couple of other specific positions.
The people I met with and talked to were all very pleasant, very nice to talk to, very technically-savvy, and very intelligent. I won't bother reviewing the office itself, since it's no secret that they're moving soon, but the work-culture seems to be very positive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This system is failing intermittently; troubleshoot why/how.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jul 2009
Interview
I am 2years experienced in java development. I have been for this interview to know the standards of Amazon. I had two telephonic interviews(each for 1hour)and after 1:1interview with 5 people. The major questions were from data structures and unix shell scripting. I was from java domain and forgot all the syntax and styles of c language and shell scripting.
Some of the questions which i remember are.,
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
what happens when you type a url in the browser. what is dns?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2009
Interview
The process consists of two phone interviews and a seven hour in person interview. I made it through the two phone screens so far and have the in-person comming up. I am used to the phone screeners asking questions, but both of them started the interviews by asking me to ask them questions. I thought I blew that, but since they are inviting me in, I guess not. The body of the phone screens consisted of programming psuedo-code, which is hard to do over the phone. The two problems were making two stacks operate like a heap, and determining which number in an array is there an odd number of times.