I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Submitted my resume online and got an email a week later said that I was selected to one on one interview
At amazon, first, we had a lunch with the interviewers. It was just to get to know them better. The you will be move to separate room and view have four one on one interviews (you could ask to go to the rest room, but it will take your interview time).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing much ... questions are easy. If you are have a computer science degree, you probably has done something similar to them. You just need to go back and prepare fot them. Tree and recursion are the most important topic
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.