I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2011
Interview
Sent email about interview timings. Had the interview after it was scheduled 4 times, each time with different employer as they did not have anyone available to do so.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. On a shared notepad, i was asked to write a program that performs multiplication of two byte array.
2. Write an algorithm to trace all the websites and urls present in an html file and visit each of them to get the same list.. until you reach dead-end.
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.