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 college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2015
Interview
four round on compus, it is excited to take part in it, all the interviewer is nice. And the question is not too hard. Use some basic method is OK, however the follow up will be a little hard
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
After a friend employee referred me, I was contacted by email. A test schedule was set and an online test was conducted. After that initial screening, the team flew into the city to undergo several interviews with pre-selected candidates.
It took the interviewers 4 hours to daisy chain and interview every candidate.
Interviewers asked questions regarding personal life, computer science, and problems in general.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Several software engineerings questions from algorithms to data structures to machine learning.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Detroit, MI) in Apr 2015
Interview
One phone interview and one onsite interview consisting of talking with five people. The phone interview was simple, just like chatting with a friend. The onsite was more serious, however the people were nice and the problems were reasonable. The decision was fast. I performed not well, so I failed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of integers, rotate it one position.