I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Jul 2014
Interview
I applied online the process took several months. There were to rounds of phone interviews followed by an on-site, full-day interview.
The interviewers on the phone were both chilled out and helpful.
They asked some basic computer science related questions that I cannot recall but it wasn't hard.
Both phone interviews had one coding task as it's main part which I had to conduct on the fly through a website that provided real-time visibility of my code to the interviewers.
The first one they assessed if I'm capable of applying the OO design principles and made me implement a card shuffler.
On the second phone interview I had to implement a function which returns the string versions of numbers in English, e.g. 11 => eleven.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were no unexpected questions, they don't ask framework or language specific stuff which was a big relief.
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.