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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
Interview
Nice interviewers. Predictable technical questions on data structure and coding, and very positive and supportive discussion throughout the interview process. Great learning experience. Second interview was a bit harder, but the interviewer was patient and nice, trying to guide me through the problem when I got stuck. Got helpful feedback in terms of improving skill set for future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to search a certain string inside a longer string consist of random data?
The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I posted my resume on my universities career portal and on the Amazon.com career website. Received a email about a month later for an interview. Had 2 back to back phone interviews, 45 minutes each. Received an email about a week later saying that I had not received an offer.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
This was a university recruiting. A panel of 4 people came to the university. First we had a screening round in which each candidate was interviewed with one interviewer from the panel. In that each one was give one algorithm/design question. First we need to discuss our idea or design with the interviewer then he asks us to code it up in our the language we are comfortable with.
After you clear that we had another three similar rounds with the rest of the three people from the panel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A variation of the K-nearest neighbour problem, and how do you scale it?