I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2009
Interview
Overall an excellent experience. First had a technical phone interview lasting about an hour. Then was flown in for a day of onsite interviews and put up in great accommodations. Interviewers were all friendly, highly technical, and questions were all good and leading to good conversations. At the end of the day had a final debrief from a HR person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to design a large distributed system on the spot, despite not having relevant experience. But the interviewer did a great job of setting up the problem and we talked through it and worked out a solution. I enjoyed it.
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.