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 through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
The hiring process is extremely quick. I had a phone interview with HR, another phone interview the next day with a dev, and flew out the next Friday for an on-site. The entire process was very professional, and I was delighted that at the end I hadn't spoken to a single person with terrible English speaking skills (as is common in the industry).
The interviews are *extremely* easy for a top-tier tech company. Sadly I think they're far too easy, and a lot of not-so-good engineers get through.
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The "most difficult" question I had was finding the intersection of two arrays. Seriously. The rest were even easier. I'm not kidding.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Got a phone interview first. Routine questions that you would expect, with some brain-teasers thrown in between. Couldn't get some of them, and I felt the attitude from my interviewer wasn't that friendly or forgiving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was asked to implement some graph search function based on an existing code base on the spot.