I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2013
Interview
University program:
1. I was invited to complete an online assessment, which contains 3 questions. Those questions are all very basic questions in data structure such as Hash table and Tree.
2. HR informed me that I passed the online assessment and HR invited me to onsite interview. The interview starts at noon after we ate lunch with our interviewers. There are 4 rounds of interview total. The interviewers did not ask any behavior questions. Every interviewer asked about two technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I did not meet any difficult or unexpected questions. The interviewer evaluated more on one's communication skills and thinking process.
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.