Software Engineer - Intern 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 Software Engineer - Intern 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 through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2012
Interview
The interview process can be a bit nerve racking if its your first time doing a technical interview for a software position but is otherwise pretty standard. The interview consists of one or two 30 minute phone interview followed by one to three 1 on 1 interviews being 45 minutes apiece. The questions are exactly what you would expect in a technical interview.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
It was a 1:1 interview. Questions asked:
1) given an array of numbers, find all pairs which sum upto a target sum 'x'
2) model a Parking Lot using OO concepts
3) construct a Cartesian Tree from a given array of numbers.