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 2012
Interview
It was a walk in interview. Amazon picked me up from Linkedin and sent me an invite for the interview. Interview consisted of 4 1:1 technical rounds of 45 mins each. The interviewers were very nice and smart. The questions that I was asked weren't very hard but I believe to get an offer from Amazon you have to impress all of the interviewers because I am pretty sure I impressed all but 1 and hence did not get an offer. But well it was a very good experience. One learns more from failures than from success:)
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
A situation question and asked to design and write a code to achieve the goal. You are a TV company who uses certain amount of bandwidth every day. You have to tell your bandwidth provider how much BW you will need for the following day based on the anticipated usage of BW the other day. Describe the DS used and write a program to determine the amount of BW needed for next day.
Architect question. Given a list of schools in a district and a Head quarter (HQ), design infrastructure needed such that all schools can add and query student data and HQ has access to data from all schools. Also internet connection in the schools is not very reliable and some schools are in disaster prone areas. You have to secure the data.
A nXm matrix of characters. Write a program to create all possible words from each element. That is, a[0][0] with a[0][1], a[1][0], a[1][1] and with all the adjacent elements of each element. Feed each word to the dictionary and if valid, print it.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2008
Interview
Hiring process was painless, it took a while to hear back from the recruiters at times, but they seem to be quite busy with lots of hirings going on so its understandable. I would recommend contacting the recruiters if you dont hear from them in a week.
Company : seems like a fun place to work at, with very smart engineers.
Interview preparation : CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, some SQL (if you have it on your resume), basic unix commands, OO fundamentals and design
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Calculate the nth fibonacci sequence. How would you optimize the algorithm.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
I got an e-mail and asked for a phone interview. I set up two weeks later. When the date comes, a Indian with very strong accent called me. He introduced himself and told me some ongoing projects that he is in charge. He asked me some computer sciences stuff questions.