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 college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I got the phone interview opportunity from school's career fair, where I submit my resume to Amazon. Right now, I am preparing the second phone interview. So hopefully I can get an onsite interview. I am going to provide more useful information here later after all the interviews of Amazon finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
T first phone interview is quite simple.. I was only asked to discuss some of my projects I did. Then some simple questions about arraylist and linkedlist.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2012
Interview
Two standard phone screens with different developers. First interview asked simple concepts and practices associated with object oriented programming. There was also a heavy focus on data structures. Since Amazon is a global company, they are interested in scalability and efficiency when it comes to development.
First Interview Questions:
1) What is encapsulation and polymorphism?
2) Describe linkedlists, arrays, stacks, queues, priority queues, heaps, and binary trees. What are their complexities and benefits?
3) On a server in a directory with 50,000+ HTML files how would you find and return a count of phone numbers?
4) What is the difference between binary and hex decimal?
5) Design/Code a method that multiples two numbers without using the multiply operator. And what are some tests you would implement (i.e. black box, white box)?
Second Interview Questions:
1) Given a list of acceptable words (dictionary), how would you check to see if a given input is on that list? Complexity and efficiency?
i. How would you complete this task with a dictionary that is too large to fit in ram? Complexity and efficiency?
ii. Now given two input words how would you find and return all available words in between the two words? (i.e. input1= "Cat", input2= "Fish", return all words in between) Complexity and efficiency?
2) Given a singlyLinkedList, write a method that reverses the order of the list. Complexity and efficiency?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just make sure you cover all your basics. They will cover a wide range of topics to see what you know and how you react to difficult questions. Always ask to clarify questions since they are usually ambiguous.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
interview was lasted 40 mins. strted with basic programming things.
And tht led our conversation onto more technical as i have to design 2 codes. 1st was kinda intresting and 2nd was challenging but i did well :)