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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2009
Interview
This is the first phone interview.
They asked some generic java and object oriented design questions and to write and read the code over the phone.
Write a program to give the fibonacci sequence and how to handle exceptions.
What is the time complexity of this and how to improve the program.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you debug a website that has slowed suddenly.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2009
Interview
The first phone interview is from the hiring manager. He asked me some coding questions, such as finding two integers from an array which sum to a given number, how to store IP addresses. The second phone interview asks a bunch of information retrieval questions.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, find two which sums to a given number
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2010
Interview
One hour interview. Was asked to describe my previous projects, what were the challenges, how do i approach them, what do I consider as my best achievement so far. He described the usual problems they solve in their department. Overall very pleasant and polite person. Apologized for asking to write code and read him over the phone, but it was not a problem to me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How do you check if the given binary tree is binary search tree?
Was given a homework question(2days): Program using a language of your choice the following assignment, given a file of sorted strings (one string per line, example file was given) sorted according to some unknown alphabet, recover the order of characters of this alphabet.