I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
I applied online using the official website. After a week or so, I was contacted by a recruiter that wanted to schedule my first phone interview a specific position in Seattle. I did a second phone interview as well. Both the interviews were technical and about algorithms, complexity, object oriented design and general knowledge. Now I am waiting for the on-site interview in Seattle.
The overall process so far worked fine. I am just slightly disappointed about their HR system, which I personally felt pretty chaotic
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an object oriented system for a deck of cards
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.