I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in May 2014
Interview
They phoned me and I was in front of my computer because they required me to live code.
Just live coding took all the time of the interview.
First question : Implement merge sort.
Second question : Divide and conquer.
Q&A
We don't really re-invent the wheel or memorize information in detail because they are a few clicks a way, it doesn't look like effective measure to recruit talented people in anyway.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
didn't expect that they would ask about merge sort.
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.