I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
Received phone interview request through recruiter. Had two back to back 45min each phone interviews. calls came on time and interviewers were nice and friendly. Went straight to technical question with only 1 personal question.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2010
Interview
Handed my resume to Amazon recruiters at my university's recruiting event and received an invite to interview with them about 2-3 weeks later, which took place on campus. The interview itself consisted of two 45-minute 1:1 interviews and were with software developers from various Amazon teams.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a 5x5 board containing random characters, find all words that can be formed from consecutive adjacent (diagonals count) characters.