I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2014
Interview
I applied through amazon.com/jobs in University Recruiting. And then they ll give you a online test with 3 coding questions to be finished in 1.5 hrs, not so hard, and there might be answer on Internets. Then the next step is onsite interview, Amazon will provide flight and hotel stay and also reimburse all your spend.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It's a Maze solver question. You r given a maze (up to you to design in any data structure you want), a start point, a end point. And you r required to find only one path from start to end. The time efficiency of your method is the only concern in this situation
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.