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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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
I applied on-line and got a phone call from recruiting department. She arranged a technical interview for me after about 1-2weeks. Interviewer said I can have enough time to solve the problem, but I didn't. He was in a hurry at last moment so I couldn't give my optimal answer to him. Also, he spent too much time to explain about his company and his department. I didn't have to know that before I get an offer!! Since he already spent 20 minutes for that, I had only 40 minutes for the question. In addition, he spent another 10 minutes explaining the question. He was bad in explaining, and didn't prepared enough to ask the question. The question is very easy if you use HashTable, HashMap, or similar data structure. But that's not the way they want.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the numbers occur odd times (e.g. 1,3,5,7,...) in the given array. e.g. { 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4 } You should print 1.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
I got a 2 phone interviews which is pretty normal and then If I qualify, they call you for on-site. I believe my phone interviews were decent. But I did not get a reply atleast for a month and then when I emailed the recruiter for couple of times, she finally responded and it was a reject
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an object oriented design for Black Jack game
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
Got a call for HR and scheduled a technical phone interview. This first interview consisted of questions about web development, my experience, and general knowledge programming questions. I also wrote a small program over the phone. I was scheduled for a second phone interview which included some object oriented design questions and also required writing a small program.