I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Applied through their web interface and received a communication from HR. Set up a time to talk where I had to be at a computer. They set up a whiteboard on which I was to post answers to their questions. Was completely unprepared; stammered, and clearly failed. The interviewer was not even paying attention, so it felt like a passthrough where the stakes were low and I just had to get those questions right. They weren't interested in anything I had to say about my experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Fibonacci sequence: pseudocode it. Honestly, pretty easy, but you have to be prepared with quick answers to this and things like this.
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.