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 online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Ithaca, NY) in Oct 2012
Interview
Just had first phone Interview. Asked a bunch of background questions to which I think I talked to much maybe...But then he immediately moved into a simple coding question and then into a pretty tricky one. I tried my best and I'm not sure if I got through both. Afterwards, just chatted about the environment, work, management opportunities, etc which were important to me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Not really difficult - just reverse an integer of arrays and return it.
Given any string, find the index of the start of the first duplicated 3-letter subsequence. For example, in abcabcdef, it would be 0, and abcdefdef would be 3, and then abcdefkajdkffatabcdef would be 0, and abcdefkajdkffatdef would be 3.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
1 hour phone interview by two different people. Was asked to write code through some virtual webpage that enables the interviewer to watch the process.