I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jan 2011
Interview
The interview process is pretty straight forward. 1 or 2 Telephonic rounds. Here majorly the candidate's problem solving and coding skills are tested. If the interviewer feels there is a concern in these areas, most probably the candidate will not make it to the next round.
After that there will be an in house interview with 4-5 rounds, mainly concentrating on coding, problem solving, computer science fundamentals, Data structures & algorithms, culture fit.
Here the most important aspect is Data Structures & algorithms, problem solving and coding. If anywhere there is a concern the loop will be cut in between.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The culture fit question: How the candidate takes the ownership, how he has contributed in his previous organization
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.