Software Engineer I 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 an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
My friend helped me submitted my resume, and then I got a call from a recruiter in three days. The recruiter helped me schedule my first round phone interview. My interviewer was a software engineer. In the beginning of the interview, he asked some general questions about my current projects and then moved to technical questions. He asked me to implement a function to print out all the permutations of an input string. I completed it and time was up. In one more week, I got an second round phone interview which is scheduled in next week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a function to print out all the permutations of an input string
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
Applied online through company website.
About a week later they contacted back for a phone interview.
The phone interview takes about an hour.
Asked why Amazon, some background questions, then technical questions.
The technical question includes.
1. compare Java and C++. function calls, VM, target execution, language features, etc.
2. The web site with 2 app servers and 1 database server is slow. Explain how you wound investigate it and make it faster.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
Asked two sets of questions : one fairly straightforward coding question and another about Object Oriented Design. Interview took 60 minutes. The questions are random based on the employee who asks them (employees get to choose their questions) and you're asked it by a random software developer within the company.