I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Aug 2011
Interview
I applied online and after 2 weeks of my application, got an email about the interview and they wanted me to come into their office on Monday morning. I really did not have much time to brush up my skills but presented myself well on the day of the interview with few other candidates waiting for the same position as me. After a brief communication with few of their staffs, they wanted me to come back the next day for skill check interview. The next day morning, I was in their office and two men dressed up real well were questioning me about my education, skills and asked me a few questions about C++ and python commands. I hesitated a bit in the beginning, later on got the hang of it and started giving out the right answers. I thought the interview went on well, at the end they told me they will call me back. I did not hear anything back from them yet.
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.