I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2017
Interview
The interview process involved 2 rounds of online assessments from what I can recall. I was invited to an onsite interview and was very excited. A few days before when the flight was scheduled, I got a call that they had already filled all of their SDE roles.
Very disappointing and unprofessional that the slots were filled before interviewing all the candidates they were considering. I was really excited for this opportunity so it was definitely disappointing.
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.