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 an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Interview consisted of two phone-screens followed by a trip to Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. In Seattle, I interviewed with 5 or 6 different people, including my potential manager (over lunch) and one other team member. The rest of the interviews were with developers/dev managers from other teams at Amazon. Every interview was about an hour in length, and with the exception of the lunch interview were very technical, with lots of whiteboard coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
None of the technical questions were standard CS questions - but they weren't that far off. There were list, graph, and other algorithm questions, but they were given in the context of an actual use case at Amazon, and then you needed to figure out what algorithm to use. For instance, I got the "How do you tell if a directed graph has a cycle?" question, but in the context of an Amazon use case.
That said, it might just be those set of Amazon reviewers - I have done Amazon interviews in the past for an intern position, where off-the-shelf questions with no Amazon veneer were used.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Gainesville, FL) in Feb 2014
Interview
Talking about resume at first and then two technical questions. There're nothing too much about others. As always, the recruiter will talk about how he likes Seattle and how nice it is to work at Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the longest repeating substring of a given string. For example, given "banana", the longest repeating substring is "ana".
OOD, desgin Black Jack.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through linkedin and asked if I was interested in joining a hiring event. They did a very good job on arranging everything and interview process went smooth. However it was difficult for me, you get questions from overall data structures and even from deeper subjects of computer sciences. Make sure you know everything about trees and hash tables. You might also get many behaviourial questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Same kind of behaviourial question asked by each interviewer asking another answer each time.