I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2011
Interview
They directly invited me for onsite interview. They do a short orientation first and then it's the pizza lunch time. After that the interview started. I have seen 4 people that day, 45 min for each round, white board coding. All tech questions, covering BST, SQL, Linked List and brain teasing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A sorted array has been rotated. Find the largest and smallest number.
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.