The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2011
Interview
Interview was basically focused on questions related to data structure,algorithms and C/C++.they asked me questions related to breadth first search, depth first search etc.Algorithms question consisted of finding the complexity.Question on c/c++ were mainly based on pointers, recursion and OOPS concept.They asked about interfaces and abstract class in java.
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.