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. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in Nov 2012
Interview
I taken a campus interview, and failed in second round.
First round, I faced one tech interviewer, which threw me an problem about trie. I didn't figure that out.
Second round, 3 back-to-back interviews with three tech interviewers, 45 mins each.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Trie. Given a string stream, and a Map, which has Strings as keys and Action as values.
When Strings in map were found, the mapping action would be fired. One character each time.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Was recruited by one of their recruiters. Talked to them and was initially very exited for the position until I made it to this site and saw other reviews on the questions asked and process. I discovered that this probably wasn't the position I was looking for, but I went ahead with the first interview anyway. Their interview process seems very 'old school' to me and not very conducive to hiring great employees. The questions were all about algorithms and data structures, and nothing really about past work, or real world experience. This was stuff I learned during my college career (the stuff I ignored thinking I'd never use it in the real world). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt though, this was a software engineering position, which really isn't my interest or expertise.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing really, all pretty standard computer science questions. Study other reviews on here and you should be fine.
Applied at an info session held in University. I had two rounds of interview. The first one was a phone interview along with an online code test which I was asked to code through their online gateway similar to google doc where they can see what I type as we go. The problem wasn't too difficult.
The second round was also a phone interview along with another online code test, the problem was harder but I think I did not give a satisfactory answer.