I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
My resume was found by recruiter from Seattle that applied on my behalf to Amazon.com. Initially everything went pretty smoothly. First interview was phone interview conducted by non-technical person who had a list of questions and wrote my answers. After that they send me coding assignment that I had to finish in 24 hours. This "skills test" consisted of 8 different assignments that required writing the actual code. Some assignments were small and easy and some pretty big and complicated. All in all it was pretty difficult to finish them in 24 hours especially for working person. After they reviewed code of assignments I have been invited to interview event in Toronto. They just "forgot" to mention that interview will take place at 25th floor and that was deal breaker for me. So as a result I didn't show up for in-person interview and got "no-offer".
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.
