I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2012
Interview
At most three phone interviews and 1 on-site interview (with all expenses paid). Each phone interview is with a different person from a different department.
Studying the interview questions posted here on Glassdoor will help you.
Phone Interview 1:
Why do you want to work for Amazon?
What is the hardest engineering problem you've faced? (Prepare for them to question you a lot about details)
How would you improve the Amazon website?
Questions about Java (difference between abstract and interface, etc.)
Write a program that computes the Fibonacci number that is less than or equal to a given number.
Phone Interview 2:
What is the hardest engineering problem you've faced? (Same as above, but different interviewer)
Do you know what a hash map is?
Big-O Questions (give an algorithm that is as time efficient as possible, no programming required)
1. How would you sort 1 million integers?
2. How would you make sure two lists had the exact same content with no regard to order?
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write a program that computes the Fibonacci number that is less than or equal to a given number.
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.