I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
I had three phone rounds of coding questions. Medium toughness. Checked basic algorithms and data structures. First two rounds, I read out the code I wrote on paper. Last round was on line coding.
Four interviews on site one after another. Coding on white board.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the longest palindrome in a file of a very large size.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney)
Interview
I can't comment much. I submitted an application for the software engineer position, and not even a minute later, I received an auto rejection email from Amazon (never received an online assessment).
2 behavioral 2 coding not very difficult. Behavioral is tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role and biggest accomplishment. The process is exactly the guideline they posted for interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about a time you took responsibility beyond your role
It was a 2-3 round process, depending on how your interview went, with increasingly hard DSA questions followed by some HR and behavioural questions. First round was mostly easy and medium leetcode, followed by medium and hard questions in the second round and above on more complex topics.
