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Updated Feb 10, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 3 months)
The recruiters were friendly; aced through 2 telephonic interviews and was invited to the on-site interviews. On the day of interview, I was interviewed by 5 amazonians; 4 tech and 1 lunch interview. I believe I did well in all but the first interview... After a week, I was notified that I wasn't selected to make a job offer. I guess I was disappointed, as I thought I did well, but wasn't made an offer. But, then your performance is relative to the other candidates they interviewed...
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Engineer at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 2 days)
The big thing wasn't exact coding skills; it was ALL problem solving and worthing with a client. IE, you are the engineer, the interviewer is the client, how do you design and lay out what they need their software to do etc. The big thing was how do you build a system; I focused on making cheap, easily maintainable systems, and that was impressive to them.
I also point out some flaws with the assumptions of the questions (this isn't how all users act, etc) and that helped out a lot as well.
Even when I didn't fully understand the problem, I kept asking and figuring, trying to learn what it is that they wanted, and how I could build it. You should always talk out your thought processes, to show them they are happening, and to get them to talk as well! TALK TO GET THEM TO TALK!!
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No negotiation, lol sorry
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 8, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took a day)
The interviewers are quite nice. I have back to back 2 phone interviews, 45 minutes each, and 15 minutes rest between the two. Each interviewer asked me some algorithms problem, and then let me code. The problems are not very difficult, but I did not perform well so I was declined the other day.
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ex. input "he is a boy", output"boy a is he"
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Internship at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I had two rounds of interview, consequentially; with 10 minutes break in-between. It was enjoyable.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Kindle Education Account Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
The person conducting the interview was 15 minutes late for the interview and was unclear about what she was looking for in a candidate. She even apologized for the job description being so vague. I conduct quite a bit of work over the telephone and can tell when a person is engaged. She would ask a question, and would then not really pay attention or listen to the answer. The impression I got from her was that she would rather be anywhere but on the phone conducting an interview.
I had 4 interview in the same week and this one was absolutely the worst. You liked my skills on my resume, why did you call me if you weren't really interested. Very odd.
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Merchandising at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Amazon (rightfully so) has a rigorous interview and hiring process. What's a bit unfortunate is that the interview itself is really only as good as the participants, and Amazon's formula of HR, Hiring Manager, Analytical Thinker, Peer and Complete Stranger to See How You Handle Ambiguity seems like its just interviewing for the sake of interviewing, rather than actually getting anything out of it (on either side).
Additionally - these folks are so disorganized it makes it seem like a miracle that anything got done at all.
My friends and family that work there say Amazon is a) great b) okay but they pay good (that's the range of their comments pretty much). But honestly I don't think I'd waste another entire day of my life interviewing with them. They couldn't even really answer *my* questions, and remember - interviewing is a 2-way street.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 2 days)
2 45-minute interviews with two different interviewers. Asked questions about data structures and unit testing in Java.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 27, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took 5 days)
After contacting by a recruiter, he set up two 45 minute phone interviews for me.
They are just like two technical interviews.
(1) Both interviewers are from India and they all got strong accent, especially the second one. I have a hard time in understanding their words.
(2) One of the interviewer refused to use an online editor together even I suggest it. He actually ask me to write a "complete" java codes on a paper first and then read "every letter" to him line by line. Seriously? Some how I believe he wanted to waste our time, why? Anyway, I only have to answer two problems.
(3) Following (2), I believe the second question he threw to me was both an algorithm but also a brain-teaser one, which I don't like. I ask him for hint but he refuse to disclose the optimal answer (I will post question below).
(4) The other interviewer, he asked all tech coding problems, which are mostly short and intuitive. But after answering five questions correctly and quickly. We still have about 15 minutes left and then we chatted until the end. I think this is good sign for me because it means that I'm doing well. But honestly I prefer someone push me to the limit and give me a compensation then based on my skill level. I feel that I was treated like a under but actually I'm almost complete my PhD. Other company send manager / PhD to beat me (everyone can be beaten eventually), but somehow I think the interviews are too easy so that I don't think they will gauge my skill level clearly. Thus, I an worry that they would NOT give me a PhD-level pay. (Probably I apply for the wrong position)
Anyway the overall feeling is okay. The question are all coding & problem solving types. No O/S questions or DB questions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Packer at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 days)
The hiring started by a friend invitation and then I filled an application online then they gave me an appointment date where there were a huge number of people in the office. they were also applying because at the chritsmas time amzon hires too many people. after I arrived I had to wait long time to start my first step in applying which was doing exam then another wait time for the interview, so it was a long day.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test, a Personality Test, a Drug Test and a Background Check.
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Software Development Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 31, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Standard interview divided in two phone interviews with a 15 minutes break.
The first interviewer was a french man; he has very friendly and polite. Made the interview a VERY positive experience. Asked me why I did certain things while I was solving a problem, and slightly guided me towards the most correct answer. He made sure I understood the concepts, and even answered questions about how it is working for amazon. He was a an awesome interviewer
The second interviewer was a hindu woman, which I didn't get along with. She was hurrying me all the time, and made the whole conversation very uncomfortable; even asked if I was guessing (although I answered precisely and correctly to all of the questions,) and at one point I asked her to clarify a question to which she responded with a rude "NEVERMIND"
The Interview itself is very technical, the two parts are identical, but independent; meaning they consist mainly in simple questions about data structures, algorithms, and object oriented design.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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