Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2010
Interview
I gave three telephonic interviews and got a reject after the third round. All the interviews were technical in nature. I was asked about design patterns, my work experience. One of the questions was to find the pair of numbers in a given array whose sum is 13.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
find pair of numbers whose sum is 13 in a given array of numbers?
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.