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 in Feb 2011
Interview
Originally received an email from a recruiter asking for my updated resume. They asked for a list of times that worked better for me and a couple days later they had a phone interviewed scheduled.
Recruiter was very helpful at clarifying questions about the process and replied to emails on a timely manner. I even received emails from him in the middle of the night.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
The interview started with normal behavioral questions, such as what type of technology do you like the most, what do you not like, why do you want to work for amazon and so on. Then the interview moved to technical questions and then programming questions. The first programming question I was asked was "Assuming a valid binary tree, write a function to insert a new node into the tree"
the second question was a little tougher, "Write a function that checks whether a binary tree is valid or not. A valid binary tree is a tree where no child node points to any of its ancestors"
The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
I had two phone interviews with different individuals each lasting about and hour. The interviews were technical in nature. However, they were less about language semantics and more about algorithm design and data structures. The questions inevitably led to the topic of performance in both interviews. Big -O evaluations were asked about the code that you implemented over the phone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm to check if an array holds a string value that you are passing in.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2011
Interview
Hi,
There are 2 rounds of phone interview and a on-site to get into Amazon. I cleared first phone interview in which they asked me only two questions. One was to convert int to string without using any library and second one was to generate random numbers again without using any library.
After 2 weeks I have to write a follow-up mail and then they set up aother phone interview in which they mostly asked about data structure, sorting and C/C++ question.
I waited for 4 weeks and after 2 follow-up mail, I received a reject mail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Generate Random numbers without using any external library and drilling more into Random numbers.