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 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2012
Interview
I have taken two phone interviews. The first one goes well. The interviewee just asked some background, and then asked the coding questions.
1.. given a number, find two numbers from an array so that the sum is equal to that number;
2.. given a number, find three numbers from an array so that their sum is equal to that number;
During the second interview, the interviewee directly asked the coding problems.
1. Given a file which contains 4 G integers, find an integer that doesn't exist in the file with a 4M memory computer
2. Given a sentence, and an output, write a function that takes the sentence and output the given results.
I didn't do the first question well, and for the second one, I make some small mistakes. So I finally failed.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
1.. given a number, find two numbers from an array so that the sum is equal to that number;
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in May 2012
Interview
Everybody knows that Amazon always looks for Data Structures and Puzzles and problem solving skills. I had one online written test and one telephonic round.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
An Online written test consist of 3 question of data structure and time limit is 1 hour. Have to compile and pass the given test case online. Two question is related to string manipulation and 1 is relate to merge sort.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2011
Interview
Three phone interviews before I accepted a position with another company. The interviews involved answering rapid fire technical questions regarding algorithms, data structures and test strategies. During this process, I had several interviews with another large company and was offered a position, which I accepted. Questions included when would someone use an abstract or virtual class, how would you test a web page where users would input payment information, questions around object oriented programming (polymorphism, inheritance etc). The position sounded very interesting and I have friends working at Amazon who love it there. However the phone screening process was a bit drawn out and the questions asked were textbook in nature and didn't hone in on my depth of experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When would you use an interface, a abstract class, a virtual class.