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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Although I heard that Amazon Software Engineers have very demanding work schedule, I applied anyway since it looks like the company is growing like crazy and needs lots of developers. The process was tough with heavy emphasis on technical questions. I wished I had remembered all my data structures and algorithms studies from school better...
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Question 1
Write the code to read in characters from a file and print out the top 10 most used. What if they are 32 bit characters? What if it’s a 4GB file and you only have 1GB of ram?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
Contacted by recruiter. Set up a phone interview for the following week. The interviewer failed to call. Sent an email to the recruiter. Rescheduled the phone interview. Talked about my exp, asked some basic data structures question and then asked to design a class. I knew I didnt do well. Didnt get an offer. I didnt know about glassdoor then. Was not well prepared.Planning to try again.