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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2012
Interview
At most three phone interviews and 1 on-site interview (with all expenses paid). Each phone interview is with a different person from a different department.
Studying the interview questions posted here on Glassdoor will help you.
Phone Interview 1:
Why do you want to work for Amazon?
What is the hardest engineering problem you've faced? (Prepare for them to question you a lot about details)
How would you improve the Amazon website?
Questions about Java (difference between abstract and interface, etc.)
Write a program that computes the Fibonacci number that is less than or equal to a given number.
Phone Interview 2:
What is the hardest engineering problem you've faced? (Same as above, but different interviewer)
Do you know what a hash map is?
Big-O Questions (give an algorithm that is as time efficient as possible, no programming required)
1. How would you sort 1 million integers?
2. How would you make sure two lists had the exact same content with no regard to order?
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write a program that computes the Fibonacci number that is less than or equal to a given number.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2012
Interview
1. binary search tree, find the second max and return it
2. implement hashtable, hashcode, run time analysis. collision function...
3. some java terms explannation
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2012
Interview
S/W Engineer position.
3 times phone interview, 1 hour each.
one full day on-site interview.
It was most difficult technical interview I ever had. Even tougher than Google.
I'm even told, here is a problem that 9 out of 10 interviewee fail to solve.
I was asked to write a code for 10 of those level difficulty questions.
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