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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2010
Interview
Applied on the site directly. Started off by asking simple questions relating to polymorphism, inheritance, protected&private access specifiers. Next, discussed about various data structures - array, linked list, hash tables - their complexity , space requirements etc. 1 question in coding - check if all elements in one strings exist in 2nd string. Design question - design a deck of cards. I don't know why I dint get through
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2009
Interview
The interviewer was very professional, My first phone interview went well. The interview was quite patient and encouraged my thought process and I could answer the questions. I was asked questions based on data structures. Second interview was similar, the interviewer asked me many non-technical questions like why Amazon, projects I have done and technical stuff like OOP concepts, two design problems. Interviewers are very helpful, they want to know more about how you try to tackle the problem, and do you catch the hints they give you.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
Recieved an email asking if I was interested for a role at Amazon in Seattle. A phone interview was set up. Was asked some general questions about algorithms and their complexity, then was asked to come up with an algorithm to find the intersect of two arrays.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm to return the intersect of two arrays.