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 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Nov 2012
Interview
The hiring process is extremely quick. I had a phone interview with HR, another phone interview the next day with a dev, and flew out the next Friday for an on-site. The entire process was very professional, and I was delighted that at the end I hadn't spoken to a single person with terrible English speaking skills (as is common in the industry).
The interviews are *extremely* easy for a top-tier tech company. Sadly I think they're far too easy, and a lot of not-so-good engineers get through.
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The "most difficult" question I had was finding the intersection of two arrays. Seriously. The rest were even easier. I'm not kidding.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Got a phone interview first. Routine questions that you would expect, with some brain-teasers thrown in between. Couldn't get some of them, and I felt the attitude from my interviewer wasn't that friendly or forgiving.
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Question 1
Was asked to implement some graph search function based on an existing code base on the spot.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2012
Interview
First the recruiter from Amazon sent me an email asking for my interest in their office Seattle, WA. I replied with my disagreement that I dont want to live my current city then they offer me an interview for my current city in Canada.
Then I gave three interview. In my first interview they asked about my background and then they started coding question. In my three interviews the interviewr asked me question on link list, object oriented questions, hashmap and other data structures.