I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
I had just graduated with my degree and was still located out of state from where i was interviewing. The interview was via telephone and then a couple days later by Skype. I found it very uncomfortable while answering technical questions, on skype, due to the interviewer moving away from the camera and not knowing what was going on behind the scenes. The technical questions were also difficult to understand the way they were presented. Other skype interviews I have since had, were much better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about distributed software systems that i was not familiar with
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.