I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Aug 2014
Interview
On campus interview. Aptitude test + 2 interview rounds. The aptitude test consisted of 20 multiple choice questions on data structures(mostly, trees) and algorithms (Big O notation), OS, DBMS (SQL) and networks. The interviews were very technical. The first technical interview generally begins with - 'Tell me about yourself' , followed by a brief discussion on your resume. The second interview is generally harder.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given a set of integers. You have to find a solution set such that no two integers, say x and y, is subject to constraint: x+y < z.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2014
Interview
I applied online and I was contacted by a recruiter for an onsite interview. I went to Seattle the next week. It's more a day-long programming assignment than an interview. (9am-4pm). There were two 1-1 meetings, one 30 min and another 15 min. You can discuss with an engineer your project design and tell them about some implementation decisions you made. It's a far more comfortable environment than a writing on the whiteboard interview.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2014
Interview
First contact was at a job fair. Answered some basic object oriented programming questions.
A few days later I was contacted by e-mail to schedule first phone interview.
First phone interview were general questions about my résumé, as well as a brief explanation of the Software Development Position I was interviewing for and some additional technical questions about data structures.
Contacted again to schedule a second phone interview.
The second phone interview was of a more technical nature.
First question was about the implementation of a phone book and how to handle misspellings, i.e. how to also return slight variations of a query.
Second question was to describe how I would implement a function that determines whether 2 elements of an integer array will sum up to a certain target value.
I proposed a naïve solution first (in O(N²)), but was asked to also give a possible solution that is in O(N).
Both interviewers told me that the phone interviews are scheduled in such a way that there remains time at the end for the interviewee to ask question. However, as the whole process seemed pretty clear to me, I didn't have any specific questions. This might have been the reason why Amazon chose to not take my application to the next step.