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
Contacted by an Amazon recruiter asking to fill up a questionnaire.
First interview started with the interviewer asking little bit about my back ground. We quickly transitioned into the coding exercise. The problem involved palindromes. I was trying to be verbally descriptive while coding the exercise. I felt a little rushed to code.
Second interview got straight to the coding exercise. The problem was around pair identification After the solution there were a few questions around optimization and possible choice of data structures. Better experience with the interviewer this time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you optimize the implementation that you provided from O(n2)?
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Had about 2 rounds. They asked mostly on data structures.And program on sorting and binary search trees. Questions were like whats Hash map,Linked List? Advantages of hash map over array list. Difference bet tree and BST