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 online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2015
Interview
Couple online coding tests, then an online fit-test, and then an on-site interview. Online coding tests were simple questions. On-site interview was done in groups, and each group was given a task to complete
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2015
Interview
1st a phone interview with algorithms questions, it was not that difficult but not that easy too. Easier than the one I did with Google, for sure.
The recruiter did not reply to most of my e-mails and they wanted me to wait 2 months to do an on-site interview since the moment they said the phone interview was successful. I withdrawn my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an algorithm to find all pairs of integers within an array which sum to a specified value.
2 Manager interviews. 3 Technical interviews. On-site. Phone screen beforehand. In meeting room with whiteboard - need to use the whiteboard for most answers. Interviewed by one person except a couple that had a shadow. All expenses were paid. Interview was all business. Questions were not too difficult but consider large data for Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to sort multiple arrays gigabytes in size
How to organize an airport
What is quicksort
How to find the best score going through a mystery book where each page has a score and different options for the next page until the end