I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2010
Interview
in 2010, I got two phone interviews. Failed miserably at the second.
Honestly, I was not prepared to be asked about a lot of data structure and algorithms questions. That was my second interview after graduation with Ph.D. In Ph.D. training, it is about research (for papers) and I never really cared about how fast my research code runs, since it is not on large scale data. If I had known they care so much about coding, I would have just studied the course just like it is the most important course in the world.
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.