I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I got 1 phone interview and then directly called to onsite.
The questions asked were:
1. String palindrome ignoring spaces.
eg: M o m
2. Inorder Traversal
3. Find the pairs in an array which is equal to a target sum.
4. Difference btw Java and C++
5. Does Multiple Inheritance exists in C++
6. Does Multiple Inheritance exists in Java
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. String palindrome ignoring spaces.
eg: M o m
2. Inorder Traversal
3. Find the pairs in an array which is equal to a target sum.
4. Difference btw Java and C++
5. Does Multiple Inheritance exists in C++
6. Does Multiple Inheritance exists in Java
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.