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 (Boston, MA) in Oct 2012
Interview
The recruiter contacted me months ago. But I was in an internship at that time. So I postponed it initially. In the beginning, it was a phone interview from the recruiter about basic questions regarding my past experience, my desire rate and so on. The first technical interview followed up in a week. It's about hash and B tree. I was required to answer the questions via an online webpage, which was so beyond my imagination, so I didn't do it well. That's the end of it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All technical questions are required to answer online. But the questions are pretty easy.
Amazon’s interview process is sure one of the toughest to crack, especially since they come with a very specific list of skills. Amazon’s interview process is intended to analyse one on the basis of a set of data points and the cumulative of all data points are taken to find the final result. It must also be noted that if one candidate fails to satisfy the company’s requirement even on one data point he or she will be eliminated instantly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The preliminary test
The technical interviews ( 3 – 4 interviews in the span of a day)