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. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Received an email for two back-to-back phone interview, each 45 mins long. Basic questions on resume like projects worked on etc, then standard behavioral questions followed by specific programming questions. Make sure to go over the material they advise you to review to be better prepared for the interview. Think out loud.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Know data structures and alogos well, and OOP prinicples. Explain every step of the way what you are doing and why.
Was two 40 minute phone calls, one after another. They were both pretty easy. The hardest question I got was an inane one relating to binary arithmetic, other than that question, drill your OOD, and algorithms and you'll do great
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you check if the 5th bit is a 1 in a binary number
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
It started from a campus recruiting process for finding summer SE interns. The interview consisted of 2 sections, in which I interacted with an Amazon.com's recruiter in each section alone.
First section: Tree Traversal
I was asked about the best implementation for a binary tree (i.e. pre-order, in-order, post-order). I was required to communicate reasons why I chose to use a particular one.
Second section: Iterative and Recursive Arithmetic Implementation
I was asked to find sums of next N numbers in an array iteratively and recursively. I came out with the iterative approach within a short period of time, and the recruiter asked for the recursive approach.
Note: The recruiters asked questions unrelated to programming too. For instance, they asked the reasons why I chose Amazon.com as a candidate company for my internship. They wanted to see my thoughts