I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2012
Interview
I had two phone interviews. First phone interview went okay. The interviewer asked me to write a code which I did correctly but I kept getting confused with complexity a tiny bit. His question was to merge two sorted arrays in another sorted list. I didn't sound very confident in the first interview but overall experience was ok. I was then called for second phone interview and it went extremely well. I answered all the questions correctly. The coding question was very nice but I came up with a very good solution. The interviewer was complimenting me a lot. However, I got a rejection email after two days. Hence I don't know went wrong :(
I don't know how these companies hire. I would have understood if they rejected me the first time but why after second interview especially when it went so well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There weren't any unexpected or difficult questions. I think I did okay.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sídney)
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.
