I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2009
Interview
Overall an excellent experience. First had a technical phone interview lasting about an hour. Then was flown in for a day of onsite interviews and put up in great accommodations. Interviewers were all friendly, highly technical, and questions were all good and leading to good conversations. At the end of the day had a final debrief from a HR person.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to design a large distributed system on the spot, despite not having relevant experience. But the interviewer did a great job of setting up the problem and we talked through it and worked out a solution. I enjoyed 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.