I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
Step 1. Recruiter Contacts you and schedule a Phone screen.
Step 2. Amazon employee calls you over phone and the interview runs for about 45 - 60 minutes. it is about core competencies of the role that you have applied for. (codeing is a core competency for all tech roles.)
Step 3. recruiter calls you to tell you about next step, if you cleared the PS.
Step 4: 4 onsite interviews + 1 hiring manager interview + 1 Bar raiser interview. all interviews are focused on different areas and assess you for the required skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have something in your resume that is out of the blue, the question will be definitely on that.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2014
Interview
I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter via email asking if I was interested in a job with them. I responded yes and there was an initial screening with him. After that I had a technical interview over the phone which was not overly difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Since this was a testing interview and not full out development he had some testing terms I had never heard of these include:
Equivalence Class Testing
Pair Wise Combinatorial Testing
Failure Mode Analysis
the only one I heard of was: White Box vs Black Box testing
The coding portion was not difficult the question was this
Write a function that takes two lists of strings and return a list of Strings with all of the intersections of the strings ex:
List1 = {"a","a","a", "b", "d"}
List2 = {"a", "a", "c", "d"}
expectedReturn={"a","a","d"}
Also he asked what tests cases I would use to validate the function also he wanted to know the run time analysis of the function
Was contacted out of the blue to complete an online assessment. The assessment included two rather trivial programming problems to be solved in either C, C++ or Java. Following the programming problem was a 24-question logic assessment which was a bit challenging towards the end. Soon after completing the assessment, I was given a link to a personality/work-style assessment. Upon completion, I was told that I would be contacted within the next few days with information on the next steps in the process. I am currently waiting to hear from them.
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