I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
HR contacted me at first for initial introduction of this job. Then, 3 rounds of photo interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array A of n integers, in sorted order, and an integer x.
design an O(n)-time complexity algorithm to determine whether there
are 2 integers in A whose sum is exactly x.
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.