I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2012
Interview
Brief discussion about Amazon over the phone. My background, and reasons why I wanted to work at amazon. Your regular crazy check. We then scheduled a time for when they'll email me the programming question. Make sure to have an IDE available. Very straight forward stuff. The lady on the phone was very nice and overall provided a very pleasant experience. I emailed back and forth with any addition questions and she was very consistent in her replies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Say you have a database of movies. Sort it by most recent and top rated. Make all the classes, write comments explaining why.
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.