I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
First complete 2 online assessments including reasoning and coding questions. Then attend group interview in Seattle. Candidates need to do a project in a team. There will be 2 interviews during this process to ask how your project going.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked questions about the algorithms and data structures you use in the group project.
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.