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 through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2011
Interview
I actually had two phone interviews. The interviewers weren't rude, just completely impersonal. I began to question what they actually knew themselves. Questions such as writing a method to print out a number of indeterminate size by printing each digit from left to right, how to traverse a balanced tree. I thought my first interview was horrible, but got a second call. Thought my second interview was good, never heard back. Just as well, as I haven't read any positives about working there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you test if a binary tree were symmetrical and balanced.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
There are three phone interviews. All of them are in the same way: problem solving and coding. They asked a lot about the basic data structures and big O analysis. In the coding process, they asked you to write a function to do some things.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Got a call from a recruiter from Amazon to set up the first interview. First interview went well and a few days later the recruiter called again to set up the second interview. I thought it went well too but later got an email from the recruiter saying that they went ahead with someone else.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Print all the possible permutations of a character string.