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 an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2012
Interview
I sent my resume to a software engineer and he forwarded it to the recruiter. About one week later, I received an invitation to the on-site interview. There are more than 20 candidates that day. We eat lunch with employees. After the lunch, we are lead to a conference room to start the interview individually. There are 4 rounds of interview, each lasts 45 minutes. All involve coding on the board.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To copy a linked list. Every node's prev points to the previous node, but the next points an arbitrary node.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2013
Interview
I was called for a Project Interview. I was put in a team of unknown students and asked to solve a coding question, in a room full of other teams.
Writing code was important. I had only one face to face interview and expected some breaks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I had a few glitches with equipment they provided. I lost a lot of time. The interviewers didn't apologize or acknowledge this.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2013
Interview
There are several questions like symmetric trees, 2-sum question. The answers to these questions can be easily found on the internet. But it is a little difficult to do the coding in 45 minutes.