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 college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I had 3 technical phone interviews. The first of which was really easy. Basic simple coding questions just to see if you were familiar with Java. The next 2 were really hard. I personally think Amazon has one of the hardest Interview Processes. It is really hard to hear the interviewers. I swear they have some of the worse phones at Amazon. I spent half of my phone interview trying to figure out what the interviewer was trying to say to me. His thick chinese accent did not really help either...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the longest substring of non repeating characters within a string given.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2010
Interview
My interview experience starting with a visit to the career fair at my school. Amazon got right to business by asking me how to solve two coding questions on a high level and writing some pseudo-code on the back of my resume. After this, they told me they would get back to me in a couple of days on whether or not they were still interested in me.
Two days later, I got an email from the recruiter that they were interesting in moving forward with my application and would like to move forward with my application. I was invited to a HQ interview in Seattle. I was informed that I would be apart of a group-project interview where I would be randomly assigned to work with 2 other candidates on a day long project.
Fast forward to the interview day: upon arriving at Amazon at around 9am, I and all the other candidates were placed into a room where we listened to presentations from current employees and were given the opportunity to ask questions about the culture, their lives, etc...After this, we were split up into groups, the project was revealed to us, and we set off to work. I can not go into the details of the project or anything, but be prepared to do real coding if you are selected for this type of interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you code up a custom rectangle detector?