I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
Applied online and also submitted resume through a job fair. At the fair, I was asked to write a simple program along with simple questions like past projects, interests and experience.
I was called for on-site interview event that consisted of approximately 30 recent graduate students. The on-site interview consisted of 4 1:1 interviews. The interview covered OOP concepts, algorithmic and data structure questions about graphs, linked lists, etc. The difficulty level was quite high, though I felt I knew some variation of the questions asked. There were no terrible surprises. Two of the four interviewers were not even interested in my name. They walked in and started asking me questions directly.
I asked my last interviewer about "Amazon" culture, he was hesitant to directly answer it. I don't know why he did that. He started telling me the company principles and goals.
It was good experience for me and they paid for the tickets and stay at Seattle, So, I was happy with the overall process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is an abstract class? Why is composition better than inheritance?
Difference between abstract class and interface? When would you use interface over abstract class?
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.