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. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was given a 20 minute online quiz. "What are the mistakes in the following code snippets?" One problem had a min/max problem, another problem had a sorting mistake, and another problem dynamically allocated memory incorrectly; however, your job was to find the mistake and fix it in a timely manner.
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Question 1
Q: Given the following code snippet, where is the error (min/max; incorrect dynamic memory allocation; incorrect recursive call to count items in a list; etc.)
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2016
Interview
Two parts interview, one with personal questions, the other one with technical exercises (there were three tech exercises). The personal questions were classic interview questions, about my education, professional experience, hobbies. Then I had to solve three programming problems. To do so I had no choice but to use C#. The first two were quite easy but the last one I could not do.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied online
Recruiter contacted with in 2 days
Phone interview was setup - One hour - 2 coding questions - more concentration on edge cases
Onsite interview call on next day of phone interview
Onsite interview was setup on a chosen date of mine - 5 interviews - one hour each - was exhausted by then end of the day