The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
A friend sent in my resume. I had a phone interview within the week. It was a one-hour interview with a software engineer on the team I was applying for. The first question was, "Tell me about an interesting book you read recently." Then we discussed my past experience (I described my master's thesis research), and then we moved on to coding questions. Finally we discussed the position and working at Amazon in general.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Extract the N largest floating point numbers from a large file of floating point numbers.
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.