I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
2 phone interviews and 1 onsite. I have the best interviewing experience with Amazon til this date. Great HR accomodation who also suggests me staying an extra day checking out the area. The interviewers are very smart and respectful. At the end of the interview day, I know I want to work with these folks.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
OOP design of Furnitures (various types of furniture that share common characteristics while having their individual ones). Design issues and testing. Another one is Design Disney multiple-joy-ride ticket dispensing system.
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.