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 online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Applied on their website and got contacted about a week later for an on-campus interview. There were supposed to be three rounds of interview in total, but I didn't pass the second round. Most of the questions (mostly about data structure and algorithm) are not that difficult as long as you are well-prepared and have a clear mind during the interview. The Interviewer was quite nice.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2011
Interview
It was a standard Amazon interview process. I could not get past the phone round itself. The position that I interviewed for was in the Cloud team. The questions basically ranged from how a normal process works to multi-processing and cloud computing.
The interview call was a stroke of luck, I had a resume that was just floating around in one of the job seeking websites and I got a call from the recruiter out of the blue.
The initial part of the interview was the friendly chit chat as to what they ( the team ) do, followed by questions about my resume and my work experience so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Simplest way to make the same change to thousands of html files stored in a Unix environment. Should have been able to answer it but dint.