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 in-person. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2010
Interview
This was for the IMDb team. First contact was an internal recruiter who asked mostly general questions like what are you doing now, what are you looking for, what is your experience etc. I was asked to complete a questionnaire over email about my experience, salary requirements, when I could start. I had two rounds of technical phone screens with developers. After the second, I was asked to complete a programming exercise and send the results back. I was invited in for an all day interview loop. Most of them went well, a couple were 50/50. One was noticeably tough, the guy was a socially awkward fellow who was very difficult to relate to. He made it very difficult to keep flowing, he was almost hostile. I have heard that one strong veto will kill you even if the others loved you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
write a method which takes x/y coordinates for a point for a graphics program and implement a bucket-fill (change all the surrounding pixels of the same color to the new color)
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2010
Interview
I came across a job opening through Dice.com. I heard back from the recruiter after a couple of weeks and she fixed a phone interview. The interviewer first started out by asking me questions about my resume and my current job and then he went on to technical questions. I managed to make it to the second phone interview which also consisted of technical questions related to algorithms and data structures.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
You are given a binary search tree of integers. Given a target integer, find the greatest integer that is smaller than the target integer.