I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
2 phone interviews. Both were coding interviews that lasted for 1 hour. Second interviewer asked for different ways to improvise on the solution. Both the interviewers seemed friendly and accepting. If programming language is said as Java then a lot is asked on Java Collections especially HashMaps. Internal implementation of ArrayLists and Hashmaps are frequently asked by them.
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.