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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Applied on career fair. Recruiters at the career fair asked 2 technical questions. First is how to sort 5 sorted integer array into one big array. The second one is how to give change with minimal number of coins.
Get the on-site interview in Seattle after Career fair, no phone interview. There're 4 interviews that day.
First one, 2 questions. The first question is pretty complicated, but the skills the interviewer was seeking are searching and constructing binary tree. The second question is how to implement a stack using 2 queues.
Second one, don't remember...
Third one, given 2 character arrays, check if all the characters in one array can be found in the other array.
Last one, 2 questions. 1. given 2 sorted integer arrays, find the median number of two arrays together. 2. how to print a binary tree level by level in reverse order.(level 1, from left to right' level2, from right to left...).
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Unexpected Question: If you can have one super power, what do you want?
I first went through a technical phone interview. After 2 two days , I got informed that I could proceed to an onsite interview. In seattle, I interviewed with five people, 45 minutes for each person. The coding questions were about binary tree and heaps. There were also two OOP design questions.