The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2010
Interview
A recruiter from Amazon contacted me after seeing my resume on Monster.com, and scheduled a phone interview after a week. It was technical interview, first asked about some resume projects, then asked algorithms questions. Later that day the recruiter sent email saying that they are going for other candidates. Overall a pleasant experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of integers, how to find pairs of integers whose sum is a given integer?
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.