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 an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
Interview
I had two phone interviews. Those went really well and the interviewers were pretty friendly. I had a little bit of trouble understanding the second interviewer who had an thick accent. But highly knowledgeable and gave me fun program to solve. After the initials phone screening the recruiters coordinated with me with flight tickets and hotel arrangements in Seattle, Wa.
The on site interview was not pleasant for me. The reason for that was I was very tired after a six hours flight cross country. When I reached Seattle, WA I could not sleep that night with a little bit of nerves and expectation. I really wanted the job but after the lunch my interview went into a downward spiral and the last interview I think I totally flunked and wasted the interviewer's time which was the most important as he mentioned he was from outside the group that I was being interviewed for (Or so called Amazon's Bar raiser).
Overall people are so friendly and the problems are not difficult. You can solve them with your eyes closed given time and in an relaxed environment. But if you succumb to pressure and easily stressed things can go wrong and will go wrong as I found out.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing was too difficult, just usual data structure/Algorithms and fundamental CS stuff. I have written no disclosure agreement so can't disclose anything here. But every one looking forward to work there must emphasis on recursion and Tree structure.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Gainesville, FL) in Mar 2013
Interview
I applied at the college career fair by just turning in my resume. I received an e-mail for a phone interview about a week later. I had two 45-minute phone interviews(with two different interviewers from the same development team) in one day. I was at a computer, writing code for the questions they asked.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
1) contacted by HR by my online job profile
2) online coding test (1 hour for develop a working algorithm about sorting/searching)
3) phone call with HR to have a preview of possible questions in the technical interviews
4) interview day in Milan, for a total of 4 technical interviews of 1-hour (each step was made of: algorithm/design question + behavioral question + few minutes to get useful informations about working in Amazon.
Given a target integer M, and an array A of N integers, write a function to find all the pairs of indexes (i,j) where A[i]+A[j]=M.
Suppose to have enough space.