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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it was at a campus recruitment. There were 2 rounds. first one of 45 minutes and second one of 1.5 hours. the good thing was you got the rejection in a days time. the recruiter was dressed very casually and was friendly. They actually want you to get to the answer. Would even help if you stray or forget parts of stated algorithm.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
Interview
Received three appointments for phone interviews all set up via email, none of them very quick as far as responses. Each interview was 45 minute, the last interview that was set up was a template email sent to my address "Hello [Name] I'd like to set up an interview on [Date]"... that never turned into an interview, and I removed myself from the process because I found a job locally in the mean time (the three interviews were over the course of more than a month). The interviews were all pencil and paper problem solving and programming knowledge. It was a review of technical algorithm and data concepts from school, I would suggest anyone to review their basic programming before the interviews. I watched Stanford's free youtube videos and they helped. Focus on heaps and other data structures and try to remember computational complexity, there is a concern for what is fastest versus slowest in the questions. The interviewers were generally nice, about par for a developer interviewing a developer.
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Question 1
I was supposed to make a method that implemented the Fibonacci sequence. I froze up and forgot the actual equation before I stalled and finally stumbled my way through it.