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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Communication was handled via an internal recruiter, who asked for availability and scheduled a phone screen. The phone screen required the use of a computer connected to the internet which was used to open a shared document on CollabEdit.
After some introduction, discussion about the position, and background on previous work experience, technical questions were asked and a solution was to be coded In the CollabEdit document.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an input stream of binary data, provide a count of the 1 bits
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
I had two back to back 45 minute interviews. After a couple months, I was asked to setup a third phone interview. The interviews consisted of two coding questions each. Coding was done on paper and then read back to the interviewer. Pretty informal overall.