I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
I applied on-line and got a phone call from recruiting department. She arranged a technical interview for me after about 1-2weeks. Interviewer said I can have enough time to solve the problem, but I didn't. He was in a hurry at last moment so I couldn't give my optimal answer to him. Also, he spent too much time to explain about his company and his department. I didn't have to know that before I get an offer!! Since he already spent 20 minutes for that, I had only 40 minutes for the question. In addition, he spent another 10 minutes explaining the question. He was bad in explaining, and didn't prepared enough to ask the question. The question is very easy if you use HashTable, HashMap, or similar data structure. But that's not the way they want.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the numbers occur odd times (e.g. 1,3,5,7,...) in the given array. e.g. { 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4 } You should print 1.
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.