I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in May 2012
Interview
Everybody knows that Amazon always looks for Data Structures and Puzzles and problem solving skills. I had one online written test and one telephonic round.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
An Online written test consist of 3 question of data structure and time limit is 1 hour. Have to compile and pass the given test case online. Two question is related to string manipulation and 1 is relate to merge sort.
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.