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 Jun 2009
Interview
The interviewer was very professional, My first phone interview went well. The interview was quite patient and encouraged my thought process and I could answer the questions. I was asked questions based on data structures. Second interview was similar, the interviewer asked me many non-technical questions like why Amazon, projects I have done and technical stuff like OOP concepts, two design problems. Interviewers are very helpful, they want to know more about how you try to tackle the problem, and do you catch the hints they give you.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
Recieved an email asking if I was interested for a role at Amazon in Seattle. A phone interview was set up. Was asked some general questions about algorithms and their complexity, then was asked to come up with an algorithm to find the intersect of two arrays.
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Question 1
Write an algorithm to return the intersect of two arrays.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2010
Interview
The interviewer was a chill guy. It was very technical interview and lasted for almost 50 minutes. Started with the coding questions. Asked me more about OOP Design Questions.They mainly focus on data structures and algorithms. Whatever questions they ask,, you need to come up with and efficient solution and think loud. The one i remember was Q. Design an Hotel reservation System.