I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2012
Interview
I have taken two phone interviews. The first one goes well. The interviewee just asked some background, and then asked the coding questions.
1.. given a number, find two numbers from an array so that the sum is equal to that number;
2.. given a number, find three numbers from an array so that their sum is equal to that number;
During the second interview, the interviewee directly asked the coding problems.
1. Given a file which contains 4 G integers, find an integer that doesn't exist in the file with a 4M memory computer
2. Given a sentence, and an output, write a function that takes the sentence and output the given results.
I didn't do the first question well, and for the second one, I make some small mistakes. So I finally failed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1.. given a number, find two numbers from an array so that the sum is equal to that number;
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.