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 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Philadelphia, PA) in Jun 2012
Interview
HR scheduled an interview in campus recruitment , Two technical interviews back to back of 45 mins . Asked a lot of software fundamental questions. Be prepared
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you remove red nodes and get the entire tree structure in a red black tree
I got a phone call for HR interview. They asked about team skills, basic skills acquired during project.
The technical interview consisted of the following:
check if palindrome
tree
stack and cue
hash table
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the hash table question was determine was which person bought the same thing on the same day. the data has to be taken from two files from two days.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I applied through a HR and then I had two 45 minutes phone interviews back to back. Both of the phone interviews were extremely technical and required you to code on google docs. In the beginning of both interviews, I was asked simple technical questions like what is hashtable and linked list and basic data structure questions. I screwed up coding part for both my interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Breadth First Search(I had yet to learn Breadth First Search in school).