I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2011
Interview
Asked some general questions like describe your most challenging project, Explain REST vs SOAP.
Gave some whiteboard questions like given two strings, write a function that returns the index of the first match of one string within the other.
And Given a set of x elements connected in a circular fashion, remove every nth element until the last one remains.
I solved both but the interviewer didn't like my first solution. Had to convince him to compile and run it to test before he accepted the next day it as correct. Guess we didn't mesh well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given two strings, write a function that returns the index of the first match of one string within the other
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.