I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2013
Interview
Had 1 Phone call from recruiter for intentions checking.
Then got first technical interview over the phone. The asked questions about Java and general complexity of hash table linked list etc'. The asked about Java GC and final, finally and finalize method in Java.
Then got a second interview by phone. It was an algorithmic riddle quite average about calculating minimal Manhattan distance on matrix world to some train stations. The interviewer was arrogant, rude and displayed hostility. He replied to private phone calls during the interview and often cut the continuation of the interview process. I have never witnessed such a bad behaviour from interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If I am available for relocation, Java general questions, algorithmic questions
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.