I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
Interview
Four 45-min 1:1 technical interviews, plus a lunch interaction before hand.
Asked to code during first two. Answered large-scale conceptual questions in third. Asked for definitions/explanations of OOD ideas and then more code in the 4th.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to serialize and then deserialize a tree.
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.
