I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Aug 2011
Interview
there was a initial group activity round where everyone was given two questions and asked to give solution to the respective mentor.
the questions were
1.in an array of integers find the largest sum that can be obtained by adding consecutive elements of the array
2.find the in-order successor of a node in a BST
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a library there are N books with the number of pages in ith book given by b_i.These books are to be distributed among K students such that the difference between the largest sum of pages in the books assigned to any student and the smallest sum of number of pages in the books assigned to any student is minimum for the given input. Also the books are arranged in a certain order and this order must never be changed.
For example:
suppose B[] contains the number of pages in each book.
Then for N=6 K=3 B={3,7,8,2,6,4}, the output will be 0 as we can give book 1 and 2 to student 1 and book 3 and 4 to student 2 and the remaining to student 3. That makes 10 pages for student 1 10 for 2 and 10 for 3 and thus the difference is 0
similarly when B={3,6,8,2,6,4} then the minimum difference will be 1 .
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
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.