The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
A very relaxed interview with 2 different interviewers. The first interviewer seemed to have trouble with the way I was describing the algorithm, but I could have been describing it poorly. Everything was done through my school and as a result the interview took place on campus. They got back to me within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about some of the work you have done, and what challenges you had developing that code.
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.