I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in May 2010
Interview
1 Phone round + 4 face to face interview. No HR rounds. All rounds have coding or design questions. You had to write a working code on paper. Pseudo code will not do. Experienced interviewers would ask fairly easy questions. The inexperienced would go for a typical algorithm questions. There are no stress interviews.