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 Feb 2011
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I submitted the RESUME online from Amazon's website and got a call from the HR after two weeks. A phone interview was scheduled in the following and I talked with the interviewer for an hour about technical question.
The whole process was smooth but it didn't lead to an offer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
Posted resume on a "paid membership" jobs site. I have approx 5 yrs of experience.
Got call from amazon recruiter. Said it was for Amazon wireless. Scheduled phone interview.
I didn't understand why they liked my resume. I was not a Java programmer, but i had a computer science degree. Was totally clueless about what to prepare.
Glassdoor.com helped a LOT! 90% of they questions matched what I saw on glassdoor.
My first phone interview was more OOP questions so I think i did well as I use them daily and was in touch with the topic. The second was more Data structures, I did not do well, as I did not have enough time to prepare in depth.
Be prepared for CS basics like difference between low level and high level languages, hash tables, binary search
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Compilation diffs b/w c++ and java/c#? Advantages of IL and JIT?