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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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2010
Interview
2 phone interviews with managers
asked lots of coding questions.
After the second interview the homework is given.
The deadline was 3 hour after the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the possible combination of number to sum up the given number
Ex: (1, 3, 5), sum 5
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2010
Interview
I had a phone interview set up by the recruiter. After clearing the initial phone interview had another phone interview and a coding assignment. Thereafter a 1:1 interview
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
On the phone interview I was asked to write program for DFS and BFS. There was also a function I was asked to write about hashcode for a string key object. What were the limitations of the function. How many keys can I have for my hashmap.
In the onsite technical interview, I was asked to draw uml class diagrams for designing a FileSystem, designing a Chess, designing the autocorrection feature in word (specifying datastructures to use, classes etc.).
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2010
Interview
A couple of technical questions such as how to make hash tables more efficient, if we have a reference string and an array of strings how do we find out which string in the array contains the same letters as the sources string in an efficient manner.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Having a reference string and an array of strings how do we write an efficient algorithm to find which string in the array contains the same letters as the reference array