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 college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Contacted with Recruiting then went on to have 3 different phone interviews each one was about 45 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a sorted array find the minimum amount of values that are needed to be inserted to make a sequence of a given length. ie [0, 2, 5, 7, 11] for length 5
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Contacted via Linked In by a recruiter and a phone interview was set up. Was called by a developer on the team and used Collabedit to work out the programming questions. Questions were purely technical, nothing about your background or work experience. It's been awhile since I did this stuff in college, so worked through them the best I could. Interviewer was cool though and answered questions about the company. Going to study up and practice problem solving and try again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code an algorithm to find the longest palindrome in a string.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2013
Interview
Standard phone screening technical interview. Minimal chit-chat, right down to business. Professional, but brusque.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There wasn't an unexpected question, per se. but the abruptness of it was jarring and threw me off of my game a little. I was expecting a completely different format.