I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Was recruited by one of their recruiters. Talked to them and was initially very exited for the position until I made it to this site and saw other reviews on the questions asked and process. I discovered that this probably wasn't the position I was looking for, but I went ahead with the first interview anyway. Their interview process seems very 'old school' to me and not very conducive to hiring great employees. The questions were all about algorithms and data structures, and nothing really about past work, or real world experience. This was stuff I learned during my college career (the stuff I ignored thinking I'd never use it in the real world). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt though, this was a software engineering position, which really isn't my interest or expertise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing really, all pretty standard computer science questions. Study other reviews on here and you should be fine.
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.