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 college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I submitted my resume on University career fair in early February, and took two phone interviews by two different interviewers in March 14th.
The first interviewer only asked me three programming questions, including Palindrome, Sorting and design an image scaling function. It took about 45 mins. He asked my to write the code via a shared document editor.
The second interviewer asked my background, data structure questions and two programming questions, he didn't let me use any editor, he asked me to write down the code on a paper, then read it word by word. Since I am not a native speaker, I found that I was not able to pronounce some of the symbols, I had to describe some pieces of my code for him. Also 45 mins.
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Question 1
Write down your code on a paper, and read it to me through the phone.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Fairly standard software questions, asked to code a data structure and a moderately difficult program. Poor description and requirements were given but the recruiter was available to answer questions. In person interview was short and not too difficult. Algorithms and OO design were covered. The interviewers were not aware of my preliminary submissions which was a little irritating. I felt I performed fairly well in the interviews but no feedback was given. I got the feeling that they were not very interested in hiring any of the candidates that day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
OO Design with little definition, interviewer's English was not good. No feedback was given on my work.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Oct 2012
Interview
The recruiter contacted me months ago. But I was in an internship at that time. So I postponed it initially. In the beginning, it was a phone interview from the recruiter about basic questions regarding my past experience, my desire rate and so on. The first technical interview followed up in a week. It's about hash and B tree. I was required to answer the questions via an online webpage, which was so beyond my imagination, so I didn't do it well. That's the end of it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All technical questions are required to answer online. But the questions are pretty easy.