I applied through university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Mar 2013
Interview
I went to a career fair and did not need to apply online, I was contacted through email. I signed up for an on-campus interview, but did not make it past the first round. If I had, I would have been flown up to Seattle for the second round with multiple teams interviewing me. Oddly I did not have a phone screening, just two one-on-one interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Imagine you are implementing your own arithmetic operations. Explain how and what functions you would need to define to implement the basic arithmetic operations like +,-,/,* (e.g. allow operator overloading, think about how bits are manipulated to do the 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.