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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
They sent me a coding challenge. The first half was easy. It was about finding bugs in small programs. The second half required you to do multiple questions about logics and puzzles. I screwed that up. 40 questions in 40 minutes. The last one was a coding question. Easy in nature. But I had to find an optimized algorithm for it and it took quite a long time. They gave me 30 mins.
The recruiter was kind, he extended the coding challenge for me twice, though 2 times I had problem logging in the system to do the coding challenge. So I had to contacted the system's support team and they resolved it very quickly within a day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Count distinct pair of integers that sum up to a target number.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2015
Interview
2 online rounds followed by onsite call. Online rounds had coding questions and other parts. They're not difficult, but one needs to manage his/her time better since coding questions take time. Seattle is a beautiful city :D
I had a phone interview and then I flew to their location. I had 5 different people interview me for an hour each. I had a 30 minute lunch break in between.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They had me questions dealing with maps, sets, objects, and game solvers.