I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
First, I get contact with Amazon recruiter and then followed by two phone interviews which lasted for 1 hr of each. On-site interview took place two weeks later after phone interview, which lasts for a whole day, seeing 6 employers in 5 groups (there were two Amanzonians forming a single group). Each group took 1-hr meeting, asking for technical and non-technical questions.
Questions include algorithms, design patterns, behavior questions, brain teasers.
You are given 3 chances to drop a non-biased dice (with number from 1-6). You can stop earlier, but the number of final drop is the money you can get. Give a strategy to maximize the money you can get.
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.