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 through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
First got interest by applying in person during a career fair and handing one of their employees a resume and talking to them briefly. I was given a pre-screen question, sometimes it's hit or miss, but they're generally quick questions you can reason out quickly if you've been prepping for interviews in general. They usually ask for a bit of code on paper or a algorithm/data structures question verbally when you hand them your resume, then a 1:1 interview or phone screen. Didn't get further than that. Afterwards, if you pass the first round, it's final round interviews on their campus.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HashMap, Linked Lists, Stacks, associated Big O for basic operations.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
I was contacted by an Amazon recruiter for a position that would involving refactoring existing code from C/C++ to Java and other technologies for internal use as well as tools for customer (seller) use. The technical interview was challenging but nothing a competent software engineer shouldn't be at least familiar with. Big O notation, data structures (specifically trees, binary trees, and tree searching algorithms) are a must to confidently proceed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a set of unique integers except one, that has at least a duplicate, create a function to identify which integer has the duplicate entry
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
Interview
It was a phone interview. Discussed my resume and then asked questions on data structures. He asked me about which all data structures I have studied and then discusses the complexities of all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name all the data structures you are familiar with and then asked the complexities of them.