I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2016
Interview
2 basic OA and an onsite interview. The second OA is a disaster. First, the proctor asked me to remove everything on my table, and use a mirror to reflect the place behind the computer, which is very improper and troublesome. Furthermore, there is a typo in the API. Can you believe that? A typo in the API!! They spell "arbitrary" as "abritrary", thus I cannot access the field of the class they give me. Due to this silly mistake, my code couldn't even compile. But anyway, I pass the second OA and flight to Seattle for the onsite. I think I did very well in the final round. I completed all 3 milestones, including the 3rd which they said is optional. And I got 99% success rate. My friends got the offers while they only got 80%. And I don't think I did bad in other part of the interview. I feel very disappointed about this company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode 138. Copy List with Random Pointer Add to List QuestionEditorial Solution
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.