Software Developer Engineer 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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2008
Interview
They took two telephone interviews. Asked questions on Object-Oriented Programming Concepts, and asked to write short programs over the phone. After a week or so they asked me to come to down to Seattle for an on-site interview. Over there 6 people interviewed me on OOPS concepts and asked to write code on the white-board. Basically I was familiar with those questions, but was not very well prepared. All the questions were from those listed on careercup.com website.stions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2009
Interview
they ask me questions on java and c++. Questions like
what is the difference between Java and C++
what is Hash table and issues can happen working with hash table
Binary trees like give m level binary tree max no of branches it can have and min it can have
difference between Hastable and Set
collections
Synchronization
Abstract class and interface
why we need abstract classes
design questions and at the end he gave me one use case and ask me to send UC diagrams
I applied through other source. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2009
Interview
Initially contacted by HR to consider a position. Went through 3 phone interviews from the same group. All very technical programming / algorithm questions. Then I went for a site visit in Seattle, which was very well organized. Hotel was excellent. Next day was a full day interview. Morning was 3 1 hour interviews with team members and 1 manager. Another interview during lunch with a brain teaser. 3 more 1 hour interviews in the afternoon, 2 technical, 1 HR.
Overall I thought I did very well in the morning. After lunch was downhill. Be careful what you eat during lunch! All the blood went from my brain to my stomach and the interview room in the afternoon was a small room with no windows. Combine that with some jet-lag (I flew in from the east coast). No surprise I didn't get an offer.
Overall atmosphere was very young, casual and diverse. Very university-like. People walking around in backpacks. One girl came in the morning walking and working on her laptop at the same time.
Expenses paid as promised. Direct deposit to my bank account.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are to write a spell checker. Discuss the API, Data Structures and Algorithms.