Software Engineer 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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2011
Interview
I was first contacted by recruiter and explained the position. I did first phone screen and i was asked data structure questions and immediately got second phone screen. I was asked OOD question in 2nd phone screen and invited 1:1 interview afterward. There were 6 1:1 interview and it was little bit hard. I did good but not good enough to get the offer :)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Design Dictionary using TRIE (write insert and search function for TRIE)
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2011
Interview
I had 2 phone screens, which were quite pleasant. In both they asked a few general programming knowledge questions, then a "write some code". The code was simple, atoi() function and tree ordering. Each phone screen was very laid back, took about an hour.
The physical interview was grueling. Not necessarily the questions, they were fairly standard programming questions, but the length of the interview. I was assigned to interview with 2 teams at once so I was there for 7.5 hours all totaled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There was a question that was a Dutch National Flag problem. It is essentially about grouping colors, however he used integers, positive, negate, and zero to do the same thing.