I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2013
Interview
The recruiter found my resume and hooked me up for an interview. Went through two rounds of phone interview. Some if technical details and back ground questions. Not very hard for me. The onsite interview is a bit tough and long. Half coding and algorithm questions. Difficult but not extreme. Lots of behavioral questions to probe if I can fit into the company's core value and culture.
They were pursuing me a lot bcoz their profiles were similar to me.
I had worked a lot on Distributed Systems, E-COmmerce, Big Systems.
The HR first called up & gave me all the details. I asked about what exactly do they look for in coding interviews. He told me they looked to see basic things like whether the candidate broke down the problem into simple parts & divided the complexity.
In the telephonic round the interviewer asked about breadth first traversal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked me to design a Potato Chips Factory by OOAD means.