Software 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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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
The first interview was a written interview where the recruiter asked basic questions. The second interview was with HR as a screening interview to get to know my background. The third interview was technical and harder than I expected. He first asked me some basic object oriented coding questions, then asked me how I would solve a problem and finally asked me to write the code on paper and read it back to him line by line.
The interviewer was looking for a very specific method, not just the right code that meets the requirements.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What complexity would sorting add to an array list?
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2011
Interview
I had 3 phone screens, did not make it after third phone screen. The first phone screen had 12-13 questions, including OOPS concepts, and at home coding task. The questions are mostly problem solving and coneptual. The second was problem solving as well, and did not include coding, jast asked for approach.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Two phone interviews:
- Writing code and reading it loudly
- Sending you a link which contains an interactive webpage;
Type code on that page so interviewer can see it in real time.
The the second phone interview was one week after the first one.
Each took about 45 min to 1 hour.
Interviewer will follow your answers and track thoughts all the way down!
So be aware any potential flaws in your solutions.
You can also defend your position and give the reasons.
I was invited to have an on-site interview in Seattle. I declined to continue since I had other offers.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Using Stack structure only to implement Queue.
How to enqueue, dequeue?