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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2007
Interview
Data Structures and algorithms is the key focus area. Puzzles would be asked apart from it. For experienced interviewees, there will be design problems as well. You will be asked to design a software and the interviewer would analyze whether you consider all corner cases and how maintainable and scalable your design is
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2009
Interview
- Introduction to the interviewer's team
- Basic Java questions
- Basic SQL questions
- Requested to know whether I knew C++. I said I have used C++ academically but, not for any project. So skipped C++
- Simple C coding question involving a recursive tree structure.
- Opened up for questions from the interviewee..
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Question 1
Describe a difficult technical issue you faced. How did you go about solving it?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2009
Interview
Two phone interviews and a 6 hour in person 1:1 interview. First two phone interviews cover data structures and basic java concepts. 1:1 interview test on core CS data structures, hash maps, trees, etc, and algorithms. Looking to see how well you can handle large datasets. 1:1 interviews are tough and take up most of the day.