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 a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2013
Interview
Contacted me by a Recruiting Coordinator through email. Not sure how they got my info. Scheduled a phone interview two weeks after that. Phone call was 15 mins late, and the Interview last for one hour. Interviewer first introduced himself and his department a little bit, then asked following questions...
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Question 1
1. Ask about your previous programming experience.
2. Network knowledge. eg. what does "http://" mean.
3. Write codes -- data structure problem for me: design a system to store and manage songs of a specific music team, given songs' names. You also need to provide various functions, e.g. sort, insert...
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Campusong)
Interview
annoying interview with lady taking notes on her pc the whole time.
They all seemed bored as if they just woke up. Which they probably did.
Asked a few algorithm questions. Simple stuff. Know hash tables, trees, stacks, etc