I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Three phone interviews before I accepted a position with another company. The interviews involved answering rapid fire technical questions regarding algorithms, data structures and test strategies. During this process, I had several interviews with another large company and was offered a position, which I accepted. Questions included when would someone use an abstract or virtual class, how would you test a web page where users would input payment information, questions around object oriented programming (polymorphism, inheritance etc). The position sounded very interesting and I have friends working at Amazon who love it there. However the phone screening process was a bit drawn out and the questions asked were textbook in nature and didn't hone in on my depth of experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When would you use an interface, a abstract class, a virtual class.
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.