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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2010
Interview
One hour interview. Was asked to describe my previous projects, what were the challenges, how do i approach them, what do I consider as my best achievement so far. He described the usual problems they solve in their department. Overall very pleasant and polite person. Apologized for asking to write code and read him over the phone, but it was not a problem to me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How do you check if the given binary tree is binary search tree?
Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.
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?