I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Feb 2014
Interview
After some emails, they came to LA to hold four interviews in my school. After first round, they will turn half of people down. I go through all interviews, but unfortunately, I did not get the offer without any explaination.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A wired question about final for interface. Actually, there is no final interface. Some challenge questions like to write code in a limited paper space.
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.