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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The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2011
Interview
Applied by Amazon we-site, got a call 2-3 weeks after. Passed the first phone interview, week after - one more phone interview, week after - rejected.
From my point of view the first was not good, i did not expect the success result. The second was good from my point of view, but...
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
The first int: Create Queue class based on Stack (suppose Stack is already written and has basic methods). Change the class for using in multithread env.
The second int: You have a file like this:
asb
stop
sba
tops
.....
Write the program, which prints:
asb, sba
stop, tops
...
OK, you have 100gb file - approach? Using pure java? Why you use HashTable, not HashMap? What the difference? White sort for string (you use it in the algorithm)
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2011
Interview
The interview process consisted of two phone interviews. The first interviewer was very enthusiastic and asked a few technical questions as well as questions about my background. After that was over he told me some things about himself and allowed me to ask questions. The second interviewer didn't really seem to be interested and just asked a single technical question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a file find the characters that appear the most often.