Software 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 a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2010
Interview
I'm contacted by the recruiter directly after I put my resume on job searching websites such as monster and linkedin. The interview consists of two phone screens and 1 onsite. Phone screens mainly focus on large scale data processing questions and basic java and data structure. Onsite questions are comprehensive: your research, their project, white board coding, and algorithm. Some of the algorithm questions are challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
print all combinations of letters according to the layout of a telephone panel.
for example: telephone panel layout: 1 - none; 2 - abc; ...
if the input the digits are 12, you need to output all combinations: i.e.
1a, 1b, 1c
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2010
Interview
contacted by HR after submitting for this SDE position online. had two rounds of technical interviews completely based on algorithms and data structures.