I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I submitted my resume on University career fair in early February, and took two phone interviews by two different interviewers in March 14th.
The first interviewer only asked me three programming questions, including Palindrome, Sorting and design an image scaling function. It took about 45 mins. He asked my to write the code via a shared document editor.
The second interviewer asked my background, data structure questions and two programming questions, he didn't let me use any editor, he asked me to write down the code on a paper, then read it word by word. Since I am not a native speaker, I found that I was not able to pronounce some of the symbols, I had to describe some pieces of my code for him. Also 45 mins.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write down your code on a paper, and read it to me through the phone.
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.