I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2010
Interview
I was first contacted by their HR in late October about the possible position in Amazon. I had two phone interviews with them. Both interviewers are friendly. They asked mostly CS and programming related questions as well as the OOD problem. I did well in the phone interviews. After a week, I was informed that they want me to go on-site for a formal interview.
The onsite interview was tough, I've talked to seven interviewers. Each one for one hour. Most interviewers are friendly. Some questions are really tough and open. I know I still have so much to improve interms of my technical skill. After all, I am a fresh graduate trying land my first job. I didn't get the offer as I expected. But I feel I learned a lot.
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.