I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2012
Interview
Contacted by company recruiter via LinkedIn.
Scheduled for a 1 hour interview. The information was very complete and the schedules were flexible.
The interviewer called on time. Briefly introduced myself and went on to the problem solving. In the end I was allowed to ask him some questions.
The overall process was smooth, except that the interviewer has a strong accent and talked very fast. I had to verify with him 3 times to fully understand the problem. I could hardly pick up what he was saying for the most of the time.
He gave me a problem and I only can come up with a brute-force solution.
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.