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 (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Submitted my resume online and got an email a week later said that I was selected to one on one interview
At amazon, first, we had a lunch with the interviewers. It was just to get to know them better. The you will be move to separate room and view have four one on one interviews (you could ask to go to the rest room, but it will take your interview time).
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Nothing much ... questions are easy. If you are have a computer science degree, you probably has done something similar to them. You just need to go back and prepare fot them. Tree and recursion are the most important topic
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2012
Interview
Got two technical phone interviews. All 45 minutes long but on separate days. The first interview asked about basic data structures and a question that is finding pairs in an array of integers, such that the two numbers in the pair sum to a fixed number. Then the second phone interview asked similar thing, but about tree. The first question is really easy, which is merging two sorted arrays into one array. The second question is to check if a binary tree is a binary search tree. Then I stopped at this step without going to onsite.
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I expect them to ask me OO design but they didn't.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Initially I think there are a couple of phone interview rounds with a little tricky but simple questions on data structures and algorithms. It typically includes a programming task. They love the java collection framework, trees and graphs. Interviewers are nice to talk to and expect to understand your approach to a problem too.
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Question 1
Simple questions like :
1) what happens when a url is typed in a browser ?? how is the request completed ??
2)find all the numbers in an array that are repeated odd number of times.
3)given the root node and depth traverse the tree and print all nodes till that depth.