I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2013
Interview
Phone Interview for Amazon Instant Video or LoveFilm. Write code in a sharing document (collabedit). The question was, using the UNIX file /usr/share/dict/words that contains one word per line, how would you get a random word out of the dictionary with the same probability for all the words in the file?
A couple of follow ups trying to improve time and space.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Using the UNIX file /usr/share/dict/words that contains one word per line, how would you get a random word out of the dictionary with the same probability for all the words in the file?
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.