I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
Interview
Received three appointments for phone interviews all set up via email, none of them very quick as far as responses. Each interview was 45 minute, the last interview that was set up was a template email sent to my address "Hello [Name] I'd like to set up an interview on [Date]"... that never turned into an interview, and I removed myself from the process because I found a job locally in the mean time (the three interviews were over the course of more than a month). The interviews were all pencil and paper problem solving and programming knowledge. It was a review of technical algorithm and data concepts from school, I would suggest anyone to review their basic programming before the interviews. I watched Stanford's free youtube videos and they helped. Focus on heaps and other data structures and try to remember computational complexity, there is a concern for what is fastest versus slowest in the questions. The interviewers were generally nice, about par for a developer interviewing a developer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was supposed to make a method that implemented the Fibonacci sequence. I froze up and forgot the actual equation before I stalled and finally stumbled my way through it.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
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.