I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Washington, DC) in May 2014
Interview
the interview was extremely easy and was only for 20 mins because i knew someone in the company but still it looks like it did not work out and that was not enough
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
i do not remember the questions right now but one of the questions was what was the most difficult task that you carried out.
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.