I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
Nothing really out of the ordinary. A little bit of preparation could have helped.
- Big O notation for Collections
- Design an object model for furniture company, hint: composition is the key
- Design data model for an e-shop and write sql (yes, over the phone) to retrieve customers/orders
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a data model for a Furniture company where each item needs to have a Type and a Material facets to 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.
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.