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 online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2008
Interview
Interview consisted of one phone screen with H/R, two phone interviews with engineers, then followed by a programming assignment. After passing all these hurdles was brought up to the corporate Head quarters for an on site interview. On Site consisted of 4 interviews (three techinical, one soft) which included programing problems and general technical discussions.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2009
Interview
I was contacted by amazon recruiter for phone screen. The first phone screen tooks an hour and I was asked question about some C++ question and algorithm. two days later they come back to me and scheduled a second round phonescreen. The process is same as the first one; and guess I screwed up; 2 days (again) later I was informed via email that I failed :(
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
given 10 mega byte storage, how many UPC bar code you can save in it?
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2009
Interview
I was asked a number of technical questions about data structures and big O timings for the algorithms that I used to solve the problems. The interviewer was nice and would lead you in the right direction if you got stuck. It really felt like they wanted to test your knowledge and intelligence. It was a pleasant experience even though i was very nervous.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Find the first non-repeating character in a string