I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2014
Interview
First I applied online. Then after few weeks or a month, I got an email about an onsite interview. It was a group interview. Candidates are seperated into groups of 3 persons. The interview was from 9AM to 4 PM.
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.