I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Aug 2012
Interview
first round was a written test which had 3 question completely based on Algorithms and Data Structures which lasted for 2 hrs.
In second round first i was asked about my projects and then he gave me one question to code and ten a series of question and asked me to tell the solution orally, all of them were on algos
Third round i was asked abt project first and then a question to code on algos
fourth round was same as third round but he was very particular abt questions on my project and the question i was asked to code was difficult than the previous ones
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
most difficult question was on infinite array. They keep changing some information given in the beginning and ask us how would that change our solution.they keep asking u did u complete many times which means they expect u to code fast
One or two phone screen. In house, interview with 5 people, usually three with engineers, one with manager, one with bar raiser (could be engineer or manager).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design/Write an algorithm to find the most-popular sequence of three pageTypes in a row.