I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I had a unique interview where I was placed with a group of 4 candidate and tried to come up with a suggestion algorithm based on a month's worth of purchases from customers. Not everyone in my team was given a job offer. Lunch was provided. I don't think they do this type of interview anymore though.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program that gives suggestions for purchases based on a a database of customer purchases for the past day
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Columbus, OH) in Jun 2012
Interview
First they set up a technical phone interview with me, but the interviewer was out of town without informing me. After a large amount of email, he finally replied to me for a reschedule after a week of no communication.
During the interview, the interviewer do a sanity check then follow up with 2 technical questions, 1 for actual concept and 1 for logic design.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
Two Online assessment rounds followed by 30 min video interview. First round contains three sections debugging, aptitude and one coding question. Second round contains Simulations and two coding questions out of which the second question was very tough. Overall interview process was challenging. The second round was lengthy. For some people third round was onsite and for some people it is 30 min video interview where they discuss the that we write in the second round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One coding question was there in second round about Round robin scheduling algorithm