I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
Two Phone Interviews, followed by 7 on-site interviews.
From the initial interview, it took about a week and a half to schedule the second one, and another two weeks for them to invite me on-site. Due to conflicts on scheduling it took another month until I travelled.
Overall they were organized, and always responded emails within a couple of business days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you index a phone directory? What data structures would you use? Implement it.
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.
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.
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.