Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
it was 45 minutes phone interview which consisted of technical questions and HR stuff.He asked basic algorithm questions and even asked me to write an algorithm to send it to him at that moment.Hash table,pointers,references,arrays stuffs .It wasn't hard but i was so nervous.
I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2010
Interview
I was first contacted by their HR in late October about the possible position in Amazon. I had two phone interviews with them. Both interviewers are friendly. They asked mostly CS and programming related questions as well as the OOD problem. I did well in the phone interviews. After a week, I was informed that they want me to go on-site for a formal interview.
The onsite interview was tough, I've talked to seven interviewers. Each one for one hour. Most interviewers are friendly. Some questions are really tough and open. I know I still have so much to improve interms of my technical skill. After all, I am a fresh graduate trying land my first job. I didn't get the offer as I expected. But I feel I learned a lot.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2011
Interview
Applied by Amazon we-site, got a call 2-3 weeks after. Passed the first phone interview, week after - one more phone interview, week after - rejected.
From my point of view the first was not good, i did not expect the success result. The second was good from my point of view, but...
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
The first int: Create Queue class based on Stack (suppose Stack is already written and has basic methods). Change the class for using in multithread env.
The second int: You have a file like this:
asb
stop
sba
tops
.....
Write the program, which prints:
asb, sba
stop, tops
...
OK, you have 100gb file - approach? Using pure java? Why you use HashTable, not HashMap? What the difference? White sort for string (you use it in the algorithm)