I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
Two phone interviews with coding.
Then invited to for an on-site interview.
About 4 interviews in a row, starting at like 2pm.
Questions were coding questions, specifically on permutations, hash tables, recursion and basic CS good coding practices (asked for definitions)
I dont believe that amazon is would be a fun or enjoyable place to work. Many of the people there were far to serious and your experience working there seems dependent on the manager / team you end up on, like a luck of the draw sort of thing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find substring in string.
give complexity for time
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.