I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Phone interview,we had a phone interview after a online test, it is a India interviewee which makes everything hard to understand. It including a tree question,an algorithm question, several big O questions and no behavior question. She was late for about 15 min at beginning and hang off the phone for several times.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
walk through a string once and return the first character that only appeared once.(use hash table)
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.