I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied online at my school's job/internship site and got offered an on-campus interview. It consisted of two half-hour long sessions (with two different developers) where I was asked to solve a few different programming problems. While I'd like to keep the exact contents confidential, I think it's safe to say DATA STRUCTURES, DATA STRUCTURES, DATA STRUCTURES. If you know data structures, you will probably be fine. By "know", I mean common structures (hash table, linked list, array, stack, queue, heaps, binary trees, self-balancing binary trees) and space/time complexity for various operations.
I didn't get a strong grasp of the people/office/work culture just from this interview experience, but later on I talked to a manager in my intended division and received a generally positive impression (although my overall impression is that Amazon likes to work its employees hard).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't want to give the exact interview question, but here's something similar that any company might ask - given a binary tree and an integer corresponding to a level in the tree, print the contents of the nodes in that level of the tree from left to right.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.
2 rounds:
1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences
Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant
2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Pretty difficult OA didn't need to get full score. One round technical interview with SDE. Interview was pretty easy, most people I knew at school and friends ended up passing the interview. Took about 1 month to hear back after interview
