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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
I applied online line and got email request for phone interview. I gave 3 phone interview and 4th one they cancelled it saying they already hired someone else for above position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is differeence between hash set and hash table??
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
HR contacted me at first for initial introduction of this job. Then, 3 rounds of photo interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array A of n integers, in sorted order, and an integer x.
design an O(n)-time complexity algorithm to determine whether there
are 2 integers in A whose sum is exactly x.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2012
Interview
It was a walk in interview. Amazon picked me up from Linkedin and sent me an invite for the interview. Interview consisted of 4 1:1 technical rounds of 45 mins each. The interviewers were very nice and smart. The questions that I was asked weren't very hard but I believe to get an offer from Amazon you have to impress all of the interviewers because I am pretty sure I impressed all but 1 and hence did not get an offer. But well it was a very good experience. One learns more from failures than from success:)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
A situation question and asked to design and write a code to achieve the goal. You are a TV company who uses certain amount of bandwidth every day. You have to tell your bandwidth provider how much BW you will need for the following day based on the anticipated usage of BW the other day. Describe the DS used and write a program to determine the amount of BW needed for next day.
Architect question. Given a list of schools in a district and a Head quarter (HQ), design infrastructure needed such that all schools can add and query student data and HQ has access to data from all schools. Also internet connection in the schools is not very reliable and some schools are in disaster prone areas. You have to secure the data.
A nXm matrix of characters. Write a program to create all possible words from each element. That is, a[0][0] with a[0][1], a[1][0], a[1][1] and with all the adjacent elements of each element. Feed each word to the dictionary and if valid, print it.