It was a good detailed oriented process that touched up on various technical aspects of coding and developing software. It was a pleasant experience over all. It had two different telephonic rounds, coupled with 4 technical rounds. Had an informal lunch sponsored by Amazon with the recruiting manager who detailed the various goals non-goals of team along with aligning of interests' discussion
An online quiz and then a phone interview. The online quiz wasn't very hard. It tested basic computer science knowledge. The phone interview was slightly harder but it was basically data structures and algorithm questions. They give you an online editor and you type responses into it.
I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2014
Interview
It was a new graduate interview so candidates were divided and literately interviewed one to one by four interviewers. Apparently one of them was "bar raiser". The whole progress took near the whole day and most of them are algorithm questions. You need to write them on white board. Basically the interview was in an average difficulty. You need to practice the algorithm before interview and know how to analysis time / space complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
As far as I remember, I had following questions. Write a function to implement Huffman encoding. Several principle of OOP in Java such as abstract vs interface, what is static function, how built-in java sorting implemented, etc. Reverse a singly lined list. Nearest ancestor node of binary tree. Write a function to shift array and the follow up was to analysis the possibility of each element got shifted. The last one was like, give you a function which is written in O(n^2), you need to figure out what is it doing for and try to use dynamic programming to optimize it. It is one in LeetCode.