I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
Interview
Pretty much like others said. More than one round of interviews. I did not even pass the first round so I can only talk about the first round. It was a one-on-one on-campus interview. First half of the interview was behavioral, last half was the coding questions. I had to write an NDA also.
Attire is very casual. It is very easy to outdress your interviewer. My interviewer was pretty laid-back and was very knowledgeable about the company. Really hard to tell what they thought about the interview.
Advice: Brush on your CS fundamentals. It's a cake walk if you prepared enough.
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.