I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
HR contacted me initially and then was sent a link to a site where in I needed to answer 3 programming questions which were pretty straightforward. I also had to answer 100 odd questions which were basically meant to judge my character. I was then called in for an onsite interview where in I had 5 rounds including a lunch round. It was pretty exhausting but over all went OK. By no ways was I expecting an offer as I knew Amazon standards and knew I had performed below it. Expectedly got a reject 2 weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA was signed and hence cannot mention the questions here.
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.