I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Mar 2015
Interview
1 online test. Very easy debugging questions. Got call for next round within 7 days. Next round was a phone interview. Interview started directly with coding round. Question was pretty hard. Gave recursive answer but he expected Dynamic Programming solution.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2013
Interview
Did a half day onsite. They never collected my NDA and didn't seem interested in it, so I guess I can feel freer to talk about it.
Met with a couple of managers who clearly hated me on sight. I felt I did a good job answering the questions, however, they pretended they didn't understand. They never made eye contact, kept their arms folded, focused on other things while I worked at the whiteboard. Didn't pay attention at all. I stood there for a while, while the guy read his email, then he snapped out of it and began fault finding and displaying a general attitude of contempt. (note: I am an unattractive older American female, so it sure felt prejudicial, but who knows, maybe they are that way with everyone)
Be careful, they will ask you about what you did at former companies. Always always say that you can't discuss it, no matter how cool or interesting it was. They are testing you to see if you will give away company secrets.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How does Facebook work? How would you design it
How does automatic suggestion work? How would you design it to scale, performance, distributed cache, etc.
Describe something you worked on at a former company. Explain in detail. (trick question! Always answer that it was proprietary and cannot be discussed)
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2015
Interview
Online Assessment, 7 questions about debugging the given code within 21 minutes. It's the first step. After assessment will get followup from HR that whether you passed and move on to the second phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ArraySum: sum = arr --> sum += arr
Grading: || --> &&
Some other questions like that. It's simple.