I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2010
Interview
They picked my resume from monster.com. I got a mail to schedule a phone interview and they asked me to apply for software development position on their website.
The interview was purely technical. The interviewer asked mostly data structures and algorithms questions; binary search tree, linked lists, complexities of some known algorithms etc. There was one coding question. The interviewer asked to explain how I would go about solving the problem and then gave 1 hour to code and mail it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Gave a string of characters and asked them to store in a binary search tree in such a way that it can be extracted in exactly the same order.
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.