Software Engineer I 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. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2010
Interview
It is a phone interviews and it lasts very long. The questions are not that difficult but some may need to think a while. Luckily one interviewer was very nice to let me email him the code afterwards when I could not figure out a solution during the interview.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
In an array, all numbers show up in even times except one with odd times. Describe a solution to find the odd one.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2010
Interview
First, I get contact with Amazon recruiter and then followed by two phone interviews which lasted for 1 hr of each. On-site interview took place two weeks later after phone interview, which lasts for a whole day, seeing 6 employers in 5 groups (there were two Amanzonians forming a single group). Each group took 1-hr meeting, asking for technical and non-technical questions.
Questions include algorithms, design patterns, behavior questions, brain teasers.
You are given 3 chances to drop a non-biased dice (with number from 1-6). You can stop earlier, but the number of final drop is the money you can get. Give a strategy to maximize the money you can get.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2010
Interview
I uploaded my resume on their website and got an email within a week to schedule an interview. Due to personal reasons, I had to reschedule a couple of times. Then on the day of the interview, I got a call exactly at the scheduled time. Interview was fine, but the interviewer was not clear with the questions himself. This got me a bit irritated.