Software Engineer 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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2011
Interview
Interview process consisted of two phone interviews. Both were manageable and consisted of basic C and C++ concepts and few simple programming problems. After this was invited on-site to their campus in Seattle. Had 5 rounds of on-site interviews, 2 on either side of a lunch interview which I believe was with a hiring manager. The interviews consisted of a combination of coding and design type questions. A couple of interviews went well and a couple not so well, so net result was a reject. The HR called up the morning after the interview to give me the news, just as I was leaving the hotel for the airport!!
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2011
Interview
One of Amazon recruiter found my resume online and contact me for the openings and set up for the phone interview within a week.
The first phone interview went well. The interviewer is very nice and asked me several technical questions. The whole process lasted about 45 mins. At the end, he asked me to send him the codes of one of interviewed questions to determine.
Couple days later, I received the recuiter email about setting up the 2nd phone interview. The 2nd interviewer seems not have much patience and I was stuck in one of the questions. so it ended quickly.