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 64.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Edimburgo, Escocia)
Interview
The interview process was very fast, after completing the coding challenge, I was invited to a lengthy onsite interview, which was very pleasant, although it felt really long, and there were variety of questions asked from different Computer Science areas.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What happens when you type a website into the browser and press enter?
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2016
Interview
I have met with 5 Amazonians.
This meeting is one-on-one interview session, and each session is lasting approximately 45-60 minutes with four to five behavior questions.
They did not ask me OOD or System Design.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied on their website. Got back to me a week later with a coding challenge. It was about an hour long and involved debugging some sample code. It was pretty easy and I was able to complete it even though I was not entirely sober. They video tape you the entire time. Heard back that I passed and moved on.
After a coding challenge as a first step, most companies usually move to a phone screen. This was not the case with Amazon. I was invited to complete another coding challenge online. This challenge would also be video taped and IT WAS 4 HOURS LONG.
Seriously Amazon? 5 hours of video taped online challenges just to even to speak to someone who works at your company? We are all busy students. How much time do you think we have? As if your corporate culture wasn't bad and abrasive enough, even your interview process is awful. It's appalling that competitors like Google and Facebook have such friendly processes that involve working with a recruiter at every step and Amazon can't even be bothered to make candidates feel welcome. Clearly they are just looking for code monkeys who can stand such poor treatment because they will not complain once they are hired and are subject to Amazon's corporate culture.
Luckily, I had multiple offers at other firms where I was respected as an engineer and a human being. Good riddance.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The coding challenge had very basic coding errors, such as off by one, missing braces, etc.