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. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I had a telephonic interview with Amazon and was asked a couple of questions.
1. Given an array of numbers (+ve , -ve) and a number k, return true if any two numbers sum up to k.
This question tests datastructure (Hashmap) and BST knowledge.
2. Design an online airline reservation system.
Was called by the recruiter and an online test scheduled. It was a difficult tree traversal and manipulation test. One test case set with values and the expected output was provided as a sample. I was not prepared enough with the APIs and so lost out. Overall it was a positive experience with the recruiter
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Three phone interviews: 1 with recruiter and then 2 technical, full day on-site interview of technical questions. Only allowed to interview one team at a time which is a bit unusual for a large company. Promises of being able to interview on other teams afterward was false. Other teams had directly (direct contact) expressed strong interest if first team wasn't a fit, but emails now go unanswered.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No questions particularly difficult: graph path finding, binary search tree, design a chess game