I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2016
Interview
The process was pretty standard. I first applied online. Then I was invited to come in and take a 3 hour coding challenge that was held at UCSD. Then had afterwards I had a 1 hour phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There are a row of n houses, each house can be painted with one of the three colors: red, blue or green. The cost of painting each house with a certain color is different. You have to paint all the houses such that no two adjacent houses have the same color.
The cost of painting each house with a certain color is represented by a n x 3 cost matrix. For example, costs[0][0] is the cost of painting house 0 with color red; costs[1][2] is the cost of painting house 1 with color green, and so on... Find the minimum cost to paint all houses.
Round 1: OA (Leetcode + behavioral)
Round 2: 1hr Zoom (Leetcode + behavioral)
The interviewer looked very disinterested and bored, like he did not want to be there at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tree based Leetcode quesiton, probably easy or medium.
The first step is an online assessment. The questions were not that difficult with leetcode practice. There were two leetcode medium style questions. The next step is an interview invitation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a leetcode medium level question involving hash maps
