I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
First got interest by applying in person during a career fair and handing one of their employees a resume and talking to them briefly. I was given a pre-screen question, sometimes it's hit or miss, but they're generally quick questions you can reason out quickly if you've been prepping for interviews in general. They usually ask for a bit of code on paper or a algorithm/data structures question verbally when you hand them your resume, then a 1:1 interview or phone screen. Didn't get further than that. Afterwards, if you pass the first round, it's final round interviews on their campus.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HashMap, Linked Lists, Stacks, associated Big O for basic operations.
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.