I applied through other source. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2009
Interview
I post resume on Monster.com. Few days later, received a call from Amazon asked if I was interested in carrer opportunities with Amazon.com. I said yes, then they arranged a phone-screen three days later.
During the phone-screen, the person asked some technical questions, something like:
You are given two lists of strings, print out all the alphabet appear in the lists in order and how many times.
Given a 2D 100*100 image, how will you shrink it to 50*50 image?
Since you are working on web application, what would be the problem you think Amazon would encouter ?
before asking technical question, he asked why Amazon and why left current position.
After several technical questions, he started to talk about my resume. Describe the current job, specifically asked how did I do performance tuning (I listed an example on resume that one data loading module was 7 times faster than before being tuned).
Finally, of course, he asked if i had any questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Since you are working on web application, what would be the problem you think Amazon would encouter ?
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.