I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2015
Interview
Phone interview with the team lead. He asked general java concept questions as well as what would you do in the scenario questions. What would you do if you found someone was scrubbing our servers? What is the difference between an interface and an abstract class? There were other questions about my background and how it applies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you print out all odd numbers 1-100?
Write a method that takes a number and returns true/false if a number is a prime number.
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.