I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Jul 2015
Interview
Amazon had a very drawn out interview process. I worked with a recruiter for a few months, was interviewed on the phone twice, and then brought in for a full day of interviews within the office here in San Francisco. Very helpful, nice people, though I had a little trouble with the protracted schedule at times. The entire process was painless though.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were pretty typical technical interview type of questions, with a little more big picture/design focus than I've seen at some companies.
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.