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. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2014
Interview
Internal referral. Contacted by a recruiter within a few weeks. Was sent a three question coding test, and a week later was asked to fly out for an interview (expenses paid).
Onsite interview consisted of the standard questions, with four 45 minute interviews. Interviewers were all software engineers and asked the standard breadth of questions (OO Design, Data Structures, DFS/BFS).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA signed covering questions. They're not unusual though.
This is a phone interview. The interviewer asked me several background questions. And followed a coding problem online. Here the question is. There are two arrays saved integers. Try to find cow and bull. Bull here means the same two numbers which are at the same index in those two arrays. And cow means the same two numbers which are not at the same index.
For instance,
array1 = [1,4,9]
array2 = [1,9,6]
so the bull is [1]
and the cow is [9]
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you can understand how the game performs, you will find answer very quickly.