I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
1st interview -
OOD questions (What's polymorphism and multiple inheritance);
Garbage collection in Java;
Hashtable;
Complexity questions.
2nd interview-
Create a Tree in Java and a traversal method;
Given 2 arrays of numbers and a number, find 1 number from each array that sum up to the 3rd given input;
Hashtable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Complexity analysis, discussion about best solution
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.