I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I applied through amazon's website and they contact me one month later.
There are two phone interviews and each of them takes about 45 minutes(30 minutes to answer their questions, and the rest is for you to ask them questions). Both of the two interviews are technical and they are all about algorithms, they didn't ask me questions about OO.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the index of an element in a matrix which has been sorted, if can't find the element return (-1, -1)
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.