I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Santiago) in Oct 2014
Interview
First I was contacted from a recruiter through Linkedin. After I passed an online test, I had a phone interview with a technical counterpart. Lastly I had a personal interview with some members of the company's team whom traveled to my city. It was very tiring. I was there for almost 5 hrs switching from one interviewer to the next one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something about calculating the possible water precipitation in an island.
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.