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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The technical interview process was totally based on resolving algorithms and logic, LinkedList was one of the topics. You have to write it down on paper and then talk the code back to the interviewer.
Everybody I had the opportunity to interact was very, very nice except for the second technical interviewer, a very arrogant guy who make me very upset.
If you want to move on, buy some books like that "Cracking the Code Interview" and get to the basics of computer science.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Unexpected question: my second phone interviewer felt bad when I said that I was good interfacing with clients. He was expecting me to say that I loved some code, or something technical like that. Not that I don't like, I do a lot, but I had to proof that since it was not his first assumption for a Software Developer.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2011
Interview
A recruiter found my profile on the Internet and contacted me. After a phone screen, the recruiter scheduled a phone interview with technical staff at Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions came from different areas of computer science: operating systems, algorithms, programming, and database. The questions were not difficult but a quick review of basic topics in computer science would be useful.