I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Estocolmo, ) in Aug 2015
Interview
An amazon recruiter contacted me soliciting an application, I created and sent an application. He seemed to like my application and he asked me various questions such as citizenship and to submit a programming test. Everything seemed that they were very interested in me and I was invited to a recruiting seminar, then the recruiter suddenly goes silent and fails to deliver the information for the event as the time gets closer I ask for the details then several days later near the day of the event I receive a mail from a different person that I was not selected. Both of these people seemed to be proper company HR out of Seattle. I kindly requested to know why was I not selected only to receive a curt response saying we are unwilling to share that information with you.
0/10 would not try again.
If HR treats you that way and you don't work for them this is a big red flag.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Would you like to join us for an interview in person?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Oct 2014
Interview
Online test followed by a Collabator online interview [using collabedit.in]
Followed by 5 technical interviews
I was able to pass the online test [ 3 Java programs]
2nd round was more about the time and space efficiency of your programs
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
The entire process toke 1.5 month, but it mainly because of the coordinator the recruiter had been working with left the company. The experience of the phone screen was not that great, I have never been able to have a good experience to have the interview with a guy who is not a developer but trying to ask technical question, because some of the time they ask nonsense questions and when you are trying to tell them that the question should be asked in a different way, they lost his temper.
BTW, I think the worst thing the interviewer did was when I got the code exercise question, I was able to explain my idea before writing the code, he stopped me right away saying do not talk to him unless I have any question about the code exercise, I think this kind of behavior somehow makes me think he is not the right person I should work with or work for.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Coding exercise:
Input in a file. >4GB
10, 20, 30 , 10, 55, 20, 66, 77, 55, 88, 55...... 4GB
output format:
10 - 2 times
20 - 2 times
55 - 3 times