I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2011
Interview
Interview process consisted of two phone interviews. Both were manageable and consisted of basic C and C++ concepts and few simple programming problems. After this was invited on-site to their campus in Seattle. Had 5 rounds of on-site interviews, 2 on either side of a lunch interview which I believe was with a hiring manager. The interviews consisted of a combination of coding and design type questions. A couple of interviews went well and a couple not so well, so net result was a reject. The HR called up the morning after the interview to give me the news, just as I was leaving the hotel for the airport!!
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.