I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Oct 2012
Interview
The recruiter contacted me months ago. But I was in an internship at that time. So I postponed it initially. In the beginning, it was a phone interview from the recruiter about basic questions regarding my past experience, my desire rate and so on. The first technical interview followed up in a week. It's about hash and B tree. I was required to answer the questions via an online webpage, which was so beyond my imagination, so I didn't do it well. That's the end of it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All technical questions are required to answer online. But the questions are pretty easy.
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.