I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied for an internship on Amazon's website. A few weeks later I received an email asking to schedule a phone interview with blocks of times. I replied to it and later received an email indicating the times of 2 45-minute interviews. Both interviews were very similar. The interviewers told me about the company and why they liked working there. I was able to ask them some questions to see how they felt about Amazon. For the technical portions, they would ask the question and I would repeat it back to them to ensure that I understood it. Most of the questions were based off the ones from this website. I was allowed to put the phone down and then type out the answer to the question on a PC using an IDE which made things a lot easier compared to coding it on paper. When I was done coding I sent the code to the interviewer who would review it with me and have me walk them through my thought processes. They would suggest ideas for improvement and seemed very helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Revealing the questions asked is a violation of the NDA as someone has already posted. But if you know the questions asked on this website you should do pretty well in the interview.
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.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.