I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, MA) in Dec 2016
Interview
The interview process seemed very first at first, with one 30-minute behavioral interview, and then one super day with few technical interviews. However, the company took a while to get back to me, even after I emailed them to check in. I didn't mind this too much, but it would be nice if I could hear back within a week or two.
They reimbursed the transportation cost for the super day, which is nice.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview questions are more related to design patterns rather than actual implementation. They do expect you to write some code, but they care more about the bigger picture.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
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.