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 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2009
Interview
I only went through 2 of the 3 phone interviews. You really need to know your Big-O notation. Understand how a HashMap works. You'l have to write code down on paper and read it back to them over the phone. I had a few easy questions on threading, a question on how I would architect a web application for a car rental company (what would the app do? which objects would we have? I think he wanted to see if I knew what a DAO was, or maybe if I understood MVC).
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I had a difficult question about a cuboid composed of smaller cubes. How many cubes are there where exactly two faces of the cube are exposed?
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.