The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2011
Interview
I was first contacted by recruiter and explained the position. I did first phone screen and i was asked data structure questions and immediately got second phone screen. I was asked OOD question in 2nd phone screen and invited 1:1 interview afterward. There were 6 1:1 interview and it was little bit hard. I did good but not good enough to get the offer :)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Design Dictionary using TRIE (write insert and search function for TRIE)
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.