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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The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
I was referred by one of my friend working in Amazon. I didn't get any phone screens before I went onsite. There were four one on one interviews in one afternoon. Questions were pretty basic. One is linked list and one is binary tree. You can easily find the questions on any technical interview website. I didn't get in cuz I totally screwed up one interview but it was not hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to find the least common ancestor for a binary tree.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2011
Interview
I got a call through my college's career site. Initially there was one screening round followed by 3 other rounds. All were 1:1's. Questions were standard ones, mostly to write code/pseudo-code rather than answer some bizarre questions based on useless language features. My first three interviewers were helpful/friendly except for one guy.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Describe human cell as class. What functions would you include?
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
I had two phone interviews at amazon the passed both and waiting for the third one.
The first interview was so short. it took about 20 minutes the interviewer asked general data structures question and questions related to web development.
The second interview was long and took about an hour. the interviewer asked about data structures as well and some data base and memory related questions/