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 college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Pittsburgh, PA)
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Interviewed with them while in university. First was a on campus interview for 2 days. Had about 5 people interview. Interview questions were fairly straight forward. Not impressed with the quality of interviews. Definitely easier than facebook, google, palantir.
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Nothing put of the blue. Program inputs a number gives you the written form. example 22 to twenty two. simple questions like this
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Phoenix, AZ)
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I applied online through the Amazon careers site. I was contacted by a recruiter.
Amazon flew some of their engineers out to Phoenix and interviewed candidates at a hotel.
I had two interviews in a hotel room. The first was pretty reasonable, asked me to implement a singleton and write the code on a whiteboard. The whiteboard was not especially large so it was difficult to fit all the code, especially since I tend to write some code, notice that I forgot something, go back and add a line, etc.
The second interview was strange because the interviewer asked me two coding questions and then seemed to be working on his computer while I wrote each answer on the whiteboard. At first I thought maybe he was copying down my code but he did a lot more typing than I did scribbling. He also didn't seem to pay any attention to what I was doing until I finished writing and explained what I had done. Seemed rude and a waste of everyone's time (especially considering I drove 2 hours each way to the interview). We could have achieved the same result by having me just submit answers via email. For the second question, I couldn't fit the entire answer on the whiteboard so I had to erase and continue. By the time I had finished the scribbling exercise there wasn't time to improve my algorithm or discuss anything.
I wasn't too disappointed when I didn't get an offer.
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Do a deep copy of a linked list in which each item, in addition to the normal "next" pointer has a random pointer to another item in the list.
Interviewed for Amazon for 3 different positions. Each time, the interviewers we're unorganized and scrambling to find out where to go next. Quite possibly the worst interviews I've experiences
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Feels like people are picked randomly to give you interviews and have only hours to prep. Very few questions related to the position I applied for.