Developer 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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2010
Interview
Had a phone interview after submitting resume through College. Questions were basically on writing code and speaking it aloud - questions were based on given an array of odd numbers and one even number, how would you identify the even number, diff between hash tables and linked lists etc
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Dec 2010
Interview
Had 3 phone screenings,
process took some time due to my personal activities and business, everyone from amazon was quite nice and helpful, there was no problem to reschedule date/time with HR
questions were challenging but expectable, you need to know a lot from various areas like
java
networking
databases
algorithms
oo design
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
what is TCP/IP?
differences between TCP UDP?
describe TCP IP model.
You have dictionary. How would you design function/system that should return true/false for check if a word is in a database? How would you scale your solution if word db does not fit in memory/disk? How would you scale it to really big db of words that should be located on n computers?