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 an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
First complete 2 online assessments including reasoning and coding questions. Then attend group interview in Seattle. Candidates need to do a project in a team. There will be 2 interviews during this process to ask how your project going.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked questions about the algorithms and data structures you use in the group project.
Applied in September, got 20 min online assessment in December. Then a technical 45 min phone interview, which is the final step. A couple of behavior questions are asked, then use collabedit for coding question.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Phone screens with several weeks of wait time in between in each interview. Questions ranging mostly around distributed systems or large data processing pipelines. I believe I had 3 phone screens and the next step would have been onsite in Seattle.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Stream of incoming 3d coordinates (high volume, millions per second), build data structure to return the 1000 closest coordinates to the root (0,0,0) of coordinates system.