1. Contacted by a recruiter out of nowhere 2. Took an online assessment test It has 3 questions. Detect and remove loop in linked list, calculate first five highest averages and return as a Map and the other I forgot. Make sure to write code without errors and mention comments for the code in detail. 3. I passed the online test and was invited for onsite interview. As I walked into the lobby, I found 40 people waiting to be interviewed. It was horrible. Everyone had four rounds of interviews, each 45 minutes and it included lunch with the interviewers. Questions are straight from Cracking the code interview. How to print a tree in level odder with each level in new line, a hash map problem which was easy, modifications to hash maps, how to find if a a graph is 2-colorable or not? Code it. I did well on all questions, analyzed runtimes and was happy about how the 4 rounds went. 4. After 2 weeks I received a rejection. I expected this because out of 40, they had to pick about 10. Many of them interned at Amazon before or had at least 2-3 years of experience. It was relative and I didn't feel bad about it.