The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
I had two phone interviews with different individuals each lasting about and hour. The interviews were technical in nature. However, they were less about language semantics and more about algorithm design and data structures. The questions inevitably led to the topic of performance in both interviews. Big -O evaluations were asked about the code that you implemented over the phone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm to check if an array holds a string value that you are passing in.
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.