I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Jan 2010
Interview
I had 2 phone interviews which involved a number of questions about my education and work experience.
The onsite interview consisted of about 6 interview of 45 minutes, one of which takes place during lunch. These are all white board coding and problem solving questions. The length and number of interviews makes it a bit challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a mutable string (array of characters) of words, how would you reverse the order of the words in the string, not the entire string. This must be done in place, i.e. not using any additional memory.
eg) "Hello World" => "olleH dlroW"
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.