I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2016
Interview
One phone technical interview followed by onsite interviews. The phone interview which was completely technical was the most fun experience. The interviewer sounded reasonable and experienced in interviewing.
The onsite interviewers overall were friendly but most of the interviews felt redundant with the same subjective questions being asked repeatedly. The team appeared relatively new and lack interviewing skills in general. They seemed surprised hearing past extraordinary project achievements to the extent that they looked and sounded not-trusting them. Most of the explanation and details of the past achievements did not appear to delve well with them also because of the unfamiliarity with technologies used.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Onsite Interviews are not as much about your technical skills as it is about your past accomplishments and leadership skills as per their principals.
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.