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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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2011
Interview
Three phone interviews and if you get through, you will get an on-site interview with the whole team. Questions about previous experience, OO Design, code test, database, etc. After each phone interview, they will give you a "homework" and you need to do the coding and send it back to the interviewer.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
met 2 people. The first one is an HR staff. The rest is engineers. reverse string and find all the
pairs of numbers in a list that sum up to a given number. Then he went ahead to educated me with the 3-
tier web services. Presentation layer --> business logic layer -->
persistence layer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the 3-
tier web services. Presentation layer --> business logic layer -->
persistence layer.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
The recruiter from Amazon sent me an email saying that somebody has identified me as a potential candidate. The phone interview took 50 mins. Only one question, given a listed list and an integer, find two numbers in the list that sum to the given number; I was asked to code and also give the test cases. The question was straight forward, but the interviewer asked me to tell him the code exactly word by word (character by character). This took a lot of time. In the end, he asked if I have any questions. That's it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a listed list and an integer, find two numbers in the list that sum to the given number (Test cases)