The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
I had two phone interviews at amazon the passed both and waiting for the third one.
The first interview was so short. it took about 20 minutes the interviewer asked general data structures question and questions related to web development.
The second interview was long and took about an hour. the interviewer asked about data structures as well and some data base and memory related questions/
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.