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 an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2018
Interview
I really didn't enjoy the whole process of the interview. I think the recruiter is unprofessional and the interview is a waste of my time.
My friend referred me. One recruiter contacted me a few days later. She asked me about my availability of the next two weeks. So I arranged my schedule and gave her several time slots that work for me.
But then she sent me an online assessment a couple hours later and asked me to finish within a week. I was a little confused - why you asked about my availability and then gave me an online test? But at this point, I just finished the online test. It's 2 hours long. It's not a small time investment. All my test cases passed for the two questions and I submitted on time.
The recruiter then disappeared. Finally, I emailed her asking about how the review process goes. She replied with a template saying they've moved on with other candidates. She has been using all kinds of templates throughout the whole process. I don't feel I was talking to a real person tbh. I haven't spoken with any real person at all during the whole process.
This is a really poor experience. I don't recommend people waste time to interview with Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
get a list of K place that is closest to [0, 0] in a 2d array
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2017
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Multiple interviews with software engineer to discuss the position and to test technical ability. The engineer talked about how wonderful he was and seemed to be trying to convince me that working in AWS would be great. Was not looking to see if I was a good fit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to code a search algorithm. There was a trick to it. So when I did not get the correct answer the engineer was dismissive.
I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in May 2018
Interview
Got a phone interview with coding on a website. An engineer called to start the interview process. I tried to explain my skills with the past work experience but It seems to me that he wasn't interested in my experience so we quickly entered the online whiteboard test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q1: The distance of position in a 2 dimensional matrix
Q2: A reverse string function