I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Ottawa, ON) in Nov 2016
Interview
Screening was done online by solving a coding problem within 2 hours. If you are successful at that then you will be contacted by a recruiter for a quick telephone interview. You will then be invited to a half day interview where you will be interviewed by four individuals. All of the interviews will be technical in nature and you will have to write code showing how you will solve the problem proposed to you by the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you determine if a person is a friend of another person on a social networking application?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2016
Interview
Very long process, probably about 6 months all told.
First phone screen.
Then phone/whiteboard interview/test.
Onsite interview in Seattle consisting of 5, 1hr interviews + 1hr lunch (which also felt like an interview).
Then more phone interviews once home again for other positions.
All the actual interactions were very positive and good however there was a lot of unanswered emails and misplaced information and just a general sense of poor organisation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were a lot of questions, mainly technical.
One was to write a solution to the 'continental divide' problem.
I applied through Amazon internal system. 3 months later I was contacted for phone interview
Phone screen held by HR person, technical part consists from data structures algorithms questions. General feeling was like interview person read those questions from the screen, just to collect answers.
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