I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
I got an interview with Amazon when they had come to my University. We had a short (10 min) screening interview while taking my resume (About string matching if I remember correctly). I also applied for this position through my Uni's career center. The follow up occurred two weeks later and interview dates were scheduled - the interviews were on campus with Amazon employees. There were 4 rounds (each lasting about an hour). the 1st round was a short resume review followed by 30 min of knowledge questions covering C++, memory management, OS concepts and a coding question (on paper). The remaining three rounds were almost purely the coding type questions that Amazon is famous for and an object oriented design question (Hotel management system).
The questions asked were very very similar to those that are found in career cup - Anyone who practices those questions will be in a favorable position to tackle this interview as they will almost certainly encounter similar questions during the actual interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a 'latest viewed item list' type function for Amazon.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
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.