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 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2014
Interview
First I applied online. Then after few weeks or a month, I got an email about an onsite interview. It was a group interview. Candidates are seperated into groups of 3 persons. The interview was from 9AM to 4 PM.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was contacted via LinkedIn. Got a phone interview with couple system engineering questions and some behavioural.
On site interview was nice and interesting. Whenever I didn't know the answer interviewers tried to help me and finally we get to the answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You're given an input string of numbers. Find 'k' most frequent items.
I applied online and got a response one week later from Amazon's in-house recruitment team to set a date for a telephonic interview, and another week before the interview took place.
It was the first round telephonic interview. The interviewer introduced themself and their role in the company, then explained the structure of the interview.
The questions were relatively simple, conflict question, performance problem question, design patterns and finally algorithms.
Though I have no excuse for my dismal performance in the interview, I would not recommend having an interview after hours, my brain was fried and I couldn't answer the simplest of questions!
Very positive experience, but make sure you are fresh and alert.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Explain a time when you made a recommendation for particular problem to your supervisor and they didn't go with it? How did you handle this?