The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
I got this opportunity by submitting my resume on the career website of Amazon through the graduate entrance. After two weeks, I got email for the phone interview. They asked me for giving several available dates for the interview.
The interview process is good and the interviewer is very patient. The questions are basic algorithm questions, but you need to calm down. I was nervous and made some mistakes. But that is OK, because they also care about you ability to think and finding errors. So the recommendation is trying to provide more ideas in the interview process not just using one method to solve the problem.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
write a function to check if a binary tree is a binary search tree.
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.