I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2012
Interview
S/W Engineer position.
3 times phone interview, 1 hour each.
one full day on-site interview.
It was most difficult technical interview I ever had. Even tougher than Google.
I'm even told, here is a problem that 9 out of 10 interviewee fail to solve.
I was asked to write a code for 10 of those level difficulty questions.
Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Amazon
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.
