I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2014
Interview
I was contacted via LinkedIn for a special recruitment in my country (Mexico). I was asked to submit my resumé and they sent me an email with the schedule for my interview. They told me that they wouldn't go further with my application that same day. The process was pretty fast, about 5-6 days from the day I was contacted through LinkedIn to the day I was rejected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm that calculates de median (and keep it constant) when random numbers are added.
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.