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* Posted anonymously by interview candidates (updated Nov 2, 2009)

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Interview Experience [?]
Positive 64%
Neutral 27%
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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Nov 2, 2009

5.0
Very Difficult Interview
Overall Positive Experience Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Oct 2007 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)

Had 2 phone interviews with techies which is Amazon standard. Passing 1 gets u the next phone interview & and passing the second gets u to Amazon campus. On site interview is quite intense and they pretty much look for superstars by having what is termed as bar raisers.

Interview Questions

Sort the first 100 numbers from a incoming input stream of milions of numbers.

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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Oct 22, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Oct 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)

Submitted resume via an old boss who currently works at Amazon.

After about 3 weeks, got a call from the recruiter for an initial phone screen the next week. Phone screen took an hour… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Oct 15, 2009

Interviewed Oct 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 4+ weeks)

First emailed on September 15, 2009. Rejected by email on October, 15 2009. I had three phone interviews with the Customer Returns area and the Ops area.

The first interview was with a… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Jul 21, 2009

Interviewed Jul 2009 (took 2 weeks)

Got a call from the HR about a week after I posted my resume scheduling phone interview.
The phone interview went well with questions on data structures and coding.
how would you find a… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Jul 16, 20090 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Jul 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)

Had a phone interview which was not bad. I did not have the optimal solution for the coding question, i.e. my solution was O(N2) while I'm sure there must have been a O(N) soltution, plus… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com student candidate

Posted Jul 6, 2009

Interviewed May 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 2+ weeks)

Applied online. Received an email to schedule for the phone interviews. Had two phone interviews and one onsite interview. I am still waiting to hear from the company. The interview… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Jun 29, 20091 of 2 people found this helpful

Interviewed Jun 2009 in Ashburn, VA (took 2 weeks)

I received my call for employment opportunity with Amazon and within week i had my first round. The interview was straight forward, with questions around Algorithms/Data Structures and… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Jun 8, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed May 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)

The recruiter asked some initial questions of why Amazon, and explained the process (2 Phone Screens, then one day of in-house interviews). Setting up the interviews / phone screens took… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Mar 26, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Nov 2008 in Seattle, WA (took a day)

I set up the interview through my school's recruiting program. There were 3 1:1 interviews that each lasted 45 minutes. The first was a first round that allowed me to get to the last… Post a review to see full interview

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Software Development Engineer at Amazon.com

Posted Mar 20, 20091 of 1 people found this helpful

Interviewed Jan 2007 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)

I had a phone screen with one of the senior engineers on the team. He asked me a series of software engineering questions involving Object Oriented design. It wasn't too hard of an… Post a review to see full interview

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