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 in Dec 2013
Interview
Interviewed with them as a new graduate last year. It was a great experience. They asked one OOP question and three programming questions. The interviewers were nice and smart. Additionally, one man mentioned the on-call duty.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Herndon, VA) in Oct 2014
Interview
The screening was much easier than I expected. The interviewer didn't ask too many difficult questions-just a bunch of general questions on data structures and big O.
He asked me to write some code to reverse the characters in a string and then some code to reverse words in a string. After that, it was just verbal conversation on how I'd go about solving various problems and some resume questions.
I got radio silence after that. Other jobs are still under consideration but I'm doubtful based on the lack of response.
Talked about what they do at their office and the various software they develop to monitor their servers and routers. He mentioned it is interesting if you like to learn about networking or you already know a lot about it. He didn't sound too excited.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a set of billion or more stars, explain how you will find the closest k stars.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Sep 2014
Interview
The interview process was quite elaborate and fast. It took me about 2 months mostly due to my delays. I did 3 telephone interviews and then on site interviews. The on site interviews comprised of 5 interviews 3 of which were technical and the rest non technical.
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