I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Southfield, MI) in Aug 2012
Interview
Applied online, Contacted by recruiter then asked to come to hotel for in person interviews. if you don't get accepted however they make you wait 6 months before applying to any amazon job again. For that reason I will NEVER BOTHER applying to amazon ever again. Amazon also do not give interview feedback, you just get a binary response back....
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
before going to a tech interview know how to code Trees, Linked lists, Stacks and Queues.
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.