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 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2019
Interview
There is 1 telephonic interview. After clearing I was scheduled for on site loop which has 6 interviews including a lunch. Interviewers included Hiring manager and 1 or 2 people from the team and others were from different team. The technical questions were very easy and they want you to write all code on board, which I did. Each interview will also include leadership principles questions that you need to relate to your previous experience. This is the tricky part and luck involved. The interviewers themselves are not competetitive but they have a set of questions for leadership principles and they write down what you say and what you write on white board like typists. They do communicate that you are doing all good but don't believe that you have cleared that round.
I thought I did well in all interviews and the interviewers themselves were all showing positive signs. I couldn't believe that this would be lost. However, a day later I get an email that they are not gonna make an offer.
I would definitely do not recommend taking interviews with Amazon if you really care for your time.
The interesting part is they do not communicate any feedback of why they would not like me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions about trees during telephonic. Onsite was mostly easy, arrays, and some hashtable related questions. There was one about how to calculate expressions. But rest was all leadership principles.
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 }