I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2014
Interview
Applied back in November got an email in early February for two back to back 45 minute phone interviews. Both interviews were very helpful and nice. They both asked about data structure questions and what their order would be. Both asked to make a function online and how I would could improve it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
make a function given that will receive two arrays find and return the union using array list
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.