The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
The phone interview process was very slow. It took over 3 weeks to process me to the second phone interview. And it was pretty fast afterwards.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
given a dictionary of words sorted according to a certain order, write a function to out put this order. e.g. input {abc, fkq, bct} output:{a, f, b, k, c, q, t}
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.