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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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2008
Interview
Had a phone interview with Amazon late last week, basically a technical phone interview: coding questions and data structure. The interviewer was nice and talkative. Got a call and an email from Amazon HR about the second interview after two days. The second phone interview is coming up this week. Hope it will go smooth ^-^.
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..
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a difficult technical issue you faced. How did you go about solving it?