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 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2012
Interview
Contacted by the HR. then arrange the phone interview one week later. 2 questions. One is fabinacci array and the other is oo design. After two days, receive the rejection. The oo design is design a card game library.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, ) in Mar 2013
Interview
1- Email contact after register in amazon web site
2- Email contact with recruiter
3- Email test - 1 hour to answer
4- Five in place interview with international expansion team here in São Paulo
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Unexpected: Write a function to sort 3 numbers.
Difficult: Model a car park management system
There're a lot of questions about linked list vs array list