Sr. Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Londres, Inglaterra) in Apr 2018
Interview
Contacted by a recruiter on Linkedln. I've passed through all 4 rounds:
1. Phone interview with recruiter
2. Online coding test ~2 hours
3. Phone interview with a technical and behavioural questions, ~1.5 hour
4. On-site interview with 4 tech persons, 1 hour each plus breaks. Technical, background and behavioural questions from each person.
All the interviewers on each stage were very professional and polite.
After a week they gave me a reject call, and asked to re-apply in a 9-12 month.
It seems that they choose just one person every interview day, and they invited more skilled person that day, but it just a rumours )
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Under NDA. Actually you can just google it - Glassdoor reviews, Amazon behavioural questions, 14 leadership principles, Ieetc0de Amazon interview questions pack etc. In fact, before the last round, they will give you all the needed materials to prepare, I found it very convenient.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2018
Interview
Connected via Vettery.com
There was some back and forth to set up the phone screen
The phone screen happened within 2 weeks of being contacted.
This was really for an management position.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Problem :2d grid , each node has 1+ colors; find number of clusters of a given color.
[[{red, blue, green}], [{blue, green}], [{green}]]
[[{blue}], [{yellow, green}], [{green}]]
[[{red, green}], [{red, green}], [{blue, green}]]
Output:
{ red -> 2, blue -> 2, green -> 1, yellow -> 1 }
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2018
Interview
An hour long phone interview with technical questions covers programming language and database. The first 30 minutes was an introduction to the company and the position. You are encouraged to ask questions. The last 30 minutes was totally technical questions, involves language specific concept, algorithms, database related concepts.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the pro and cons of using index on a database table?