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 Feb 2015
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I had the online assessment round. It had 2 coding question which can be done in C, C++ or java. It also had about 25 analytical questions which are pretty easy.The next round would be a face-to face interview.
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The first question was about the printing all the permutations of a word. The second one was related to bitwise operators
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2014
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I had four rounds of interview for this position. I was asked various questions relating to data structures especially HashTables. They also asked me questions related to my resume. The HR was not very prompt in communication.
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How to find the best combination of days to buy and sell stocks from the given array of prices.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2014
Interview
There were supposed to be two phone screens, then an onsite interview. I only made it to the first phone screen. This was my first time interviewing, so I obviously had a lot of reviewing to do. It's really important that you verbalize your thought process, and this is where I was greatly lacking. The interviewer was friendly and was willing to discuss/walk through the problems with you.
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Questions were centered around Hash Tables. Complexity, amortized analysis (how would the mechanics work with chaining/open addressing?).