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 a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2009
Interview
Initially got contacted by an HR person. Setting up interviews was very fast and easy. After two successful phone interviews had an on-site interview. This interview consisted of about seven one-on-one sessions. the questions were from "Tell me about who you are and why are you applying to Amazon" to some technical algorithms and programming questions.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2009
Interview
1) write a program to return smaller angle between hour and minute arrows of the clock. input parameters: hour of the day, minute of the hour, output angle between them (out of two angles choose smaller angle). how would you test your program, what kind of boundary conditions to use. 2) what programming language do you use.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2009
Interview
This is the first phone interview.
They asked some generic java and object oriented design questions and to write and read the code over the phone.
Write a program to give the fibonacci sequence and how to handle exceptions.
What is the time complexity of this and how to improve the program.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you debug a website that has slowed suddenly.