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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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
Applied through their careers site. After 2 weeks got a email from HR to schedule two back to back phone interviews.
Phone Interview 1-
Q1)How will you find if two elements exist in an array which add up to k.
Discussed the various approaches. He asked me to implement the HashMap approach on ColabEdit.
Q2) Define BST. Describe different approaches to determine whether a tree is BST.
Q3) How will you convert a string to Integer.
Phone Interview 2-
Q1) Write an algo to merge two ascending sorted LL in a descending manner.
Gave a recursive solution. Asked me to write a iterative version too.
Q2) Asked to give an overview of various sorting algorithms.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Feb 2013
Interview
submit resume online. Get two three phone interviews. Each one begins with some talking about past projects then continue to some technical questions and end up with a coding problem. Each phone interviews last about 45 minutes. Wait about 2 weeks for follow up after each interview. Wait 4 weeks to get the offer after the last phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What kind of script language you'll use to delete all SSN in a large amount of files in distributed system? How to delete them?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
2 back to back phone interviews: asked to implement a queue, asked about quick sort, iterator, stl, sorting an array and knowledge about c++. Nothing difficult. The interviewer goes straightly to technical questions. Both are friendly and helpful. First used Collabedit to write code online, second required to dictate code through phone.
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