I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
My friend helped me submitted my resume, and then I got a call from a recruiter in three days. The recruiter helped me schedule my first round phone interview. My interviewer was a software engineer. In the beginning of the interview, he asked some general questions about my current projects and then moved to technical questions. He asked me to implement a function to print out all the permutations of an input string. I completed it and time was up. In one more week, I got an second round phone interview which is scheduled in next week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a function to print out all the permutations of an input string
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.