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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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2012
Interview
Just got a phone interview yesterday! It went great. My interviewer asked some resume questions, which were very easy going, and I was only given one problem to solve: one on object-oriented design (in Java). We worked on collabedit.com. The design was straightforward, although he was a bit picky about one of the methods I wrote and fed me hints for quite a while on how to perfect it. He sounded like he was in a bit of a rush as he told me he had a meeting to go to afterwards, and our conversation was wrapped up quickly. But I continued to work on the code afterwards and after he came back online and saw me, he very generously continued to guide me through it and after a while I got just about everything right. I just found out I made it through to another phone interview, so I'm guessing I did reasonably well or he was impressed by my persistence.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement some classes to simulate a deck of cards.
the card class should have getRank() and getsuit() methods.
the deck class should have a shuffle() method and deal() method. The constructor should create a shuffled deck. The shuffle method must be hand-coded; the Collections.shuffle method is not allowed.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
One technical phone interview, to test knowledge of data structures and algorithms
On-site interview, 5 1:1 interviews, out of which one was lunch interview with hiring manager.
Rest all were white board coding questions