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 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Feb 2014
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normal algorithms questions, like find word freq, reverse linked list, out put a tree in level order, have to be familiar with the data structures and algorithms, also have ques about tesing and ood, like what is the difference between interface and abstact class, how hash map works so on, what is unit test, things like that
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2013
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I applied through online and received an email from them after a month to schedule a phone interview. The interview was technical in nature, involving programming questions and hands-on programming on Collabedit
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2014
Interview
The interviewer will ask you the basic data structure such as hash table. Therefore, you should master hash table. The first coding question is get out of the maze. You could simply use DFS to solve it. The second coding question is compress string which is the same question in Cracking the coding interview.
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Question 1
One of the interviewer ask me tell me about your favorite project. He required that this project should be simply for yourself rather than research or courses. It is a really hard question, because most of my project are course projects.