I applied through college or 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).
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.