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 an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Jan 2010
Interview
I had 2 phone interviews which involved a number of questions about my education and work experience.
The onsite interview consisted of about 6 interview of 45 minutes, one of which takes place during lunch. These are all white board coding and problem solving questions. The length and number of interviews makes it a bit challenging.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a mutable string (array of characters) of words, how would you reverse the order of the words in the string, not the entire string. This must be done in place, i.e. not using any additional memory.
eg) "Hello World" => "olleH dlroW"
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
Nothing really out of the ordinary. A little bit of preparation could have helped.
- Big O notation for Collections
- Design an object model for furniture company, hint: composition is the key
- Design data model for an e-shop and write sql (yes, over the phone) to retrieve customers/orders
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Design a data model for a Furniture company where each item needs to have a Type and a Material facets to it.