I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
HR contacted me initially and then was sent a link to a site where in I needed to answer 3 programming questions which were pretty straightforward. I also had to answer 100 odd questions which were basically meant to judge my character. I was then called in for an onsite interview where in I had 5 rounds including a lunch round. It was pretty exhausting but over all went OK. By no ways was I expecting an offer as I knew Amazon standards and knew I had performed below it. Expectedly got a reject 2 weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA was signed and hence cannot mention the questions here.
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.