I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2012
Interview
I went to Amazon for a on-site interview. It is a group interview. Three people are assigned into a group and assigned a programming question. The question is separated into three parts. Each individual can choose one of the parts and use any language you want. It gives almost four hours to finish the task and during this process, you will be interviewed by an employee about thirty mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just to describe the data structure and algorithms you use for the program. And analyze them using big O. And asked if you have more time, what other algorithms you may use.
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.