I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Gainesville, FL) in Jan 2016
Interview
Applied online for an internship on jan 2016. First its a debuggimg test. Very easy one line debugging. It is a 20 minute debugging test. Then a phone call which ia the final round. Thought mine was good, but got a reject. The phone call lasted for 45 mins. He first asks behavioral questions related to your project, or why amazon. It is followed by a couple of theory questions related to hash tables arrays, linkedlist, etc. Their advantages and when to use them.
Next it is followed by couple of coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Binary search in a circular sorted array. Find difference between two dates. Dynamic programming. Merge two sorted linkedlists.
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.