Intern 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 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
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The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
Met the HR rep at the university career fair, i was asked some simple array questions and it went pretty well
Got an email a couple of days later and scheduled an on campus interview, which is two 45min back to back technical interview. Both interviewer were very friendly and helpful
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I will not give away the interview questions since I've signed the NDA. However, the advises I can offer is:
1: make sure you are FULLY prepared before you attend the interview, they are not EASY. by FULLY prepared, I mean, do a very serious review on your data structures and algorithms!
2: Never begin solve the question before you completely understand what the question is asking. most of the time the interviewer's instruction maybe misleading, not quite accurate or hard to follow. If that happens, do not be afraid to ask for clarifications.
3: Try an example after you write your code. remember to take care of boundary cases such as empty array or null pointer exceptions
4: If you prefer working alone, let your interviewer know, they can let you working alone and come back, or they will try their best not staring at you.
5: Be FULLY PREPARED and good luck!
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2010
Interview
Two 45 minute phone sessions. The interviewers expect you to write down code and then read your solutions to them, it was my first phone interview process and i completely balked. I was not selected, the questions i thought were relatively easy though. One of the questions asked was how to find the min and max in an array and how to find the median in a set of elements. Make sure you write down the code and read it aloud to him.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
Interview
There were 2 back to back 45-min interviews on phone. They all started with resume reviews and basic data structures questions about hash-tables and linked lists. And then I was asked some coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function which determines if there is a cycle in a linked-list.