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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2012
Interview
Got this call from a recruiter. Initially 2 rounds of telephonic interviews. Questions were based on DS and Algorithms of average difficulty. After that they called for face to face 1:1 interviews. They arranged the travelling and accommodation. There I had 4 round of 1:1 interviews.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How will you save a spreadsheet like file on a hard drive? Catch was that file can have many rows and many columns, many can be vacant. Each cell can have data of varying size.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2011
Interview
2 Phone Interviews,
1st - Very technical, asked me to code online while the interviewer watched on a 'Collabedit' project. Didn't do well as I was out of touch with Java.
2nd - A much better interview, about basic concepts in programming, and general stuff about me and my professional goals.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you remove common elements from a two arrays.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I got an email to schedule a phone interview. I was asked about my resume. After that I got an onsite interview to Seattle, 4 technical interviews about OO Design, Data Structure and algorithm. Nothing special.