I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, MA) in Jun 2015
Interview
Lengthy 5 interview 5 hour non-stop interview sessions. 7 people total. Location was had a very industrial feel to it with little air circulation. With the exception of one of the interviewers, they acted like you should be bowing to the altar of Amazon for the privilege of being there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of "tell me about a time when you...." Or "describe a time when you could have done something better...." They were very open ended and nebulous. They made you feel like a hospital patient undergoing some sort of experimental treatment as they had "interview trainees" along for the ride. The last interview was by a senior person who blew significant smoke. Lastly and most annoyingly is that they continually took "notes" on their computers as you talked.
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.