I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Posted my resume on mosnster.com and careerbuilder.com. A recruiter from Amazon.com contacted me days later. First phone interview was set up with one team. It went well and a second phone interview with another team was set up. It went well too and an onsite interview as scheduled. I then flew to Seattle and met 8 interviewers in one day, lasting from 9 to 3:30. I thought i did OK but didn't get the offer.
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.