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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2011
Interview
Applied online through company website.
About a week later they contacted back for a phone interview.
The phone interview takes about an hour.
Asked why Amazon, some background questions, then technical questions.
The technical question includes.
1. compare Java and C++. function calls, VM, target execution, language features, etc.
2. The web site with 2 app servers and 1 database server is slow. Explain how you wound investigate it and make it faster.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
Asked two sets of questions : one fairly straightforward coding question and another about Object Oriented Design. Interview took 60 minutes. The questions are random based on the employee who asks them (employees get to choose their questions) and you're asked it by a random software developer within the company.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2011
Interview
I posted my resume on a job site and was contacted by an Amazon recruiter 1-2 weeks later.
The phone interview is all about technical questions. I thought I did well but didn't hear back from them after that.