Amazon.com Software Engineer I Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – I had 2 phone interviews with Amazon. I was invited to in-person interview after the first one that lasted about 2 hours. Couldn't go to Seattle at that time, so I declined. Recently, I had interviewed over the phone/online coding again. Haven't heard back yet, perhaps it's not been long enough. I feel their phone and online interview is a fair game for entry level position, consisting mostly of testing of general knowledge of data structures and algorithms. Trees, hash tables, list, algorithms used on them. I felt the interviews were testing knowledge of this subject matter mostly and questions were how to optimize/improve the algorithm also. Nothing too tricky or unusual. They didn't care which language one would use either.

Interview Details – Had 3 technical phone interviews followed by an onsite in OC. Amazon flew me out and I had full day of interviews including a lunch interview. Interviews were mostly technical but included OOP design and team skills. I had originally been interviewing for a SDET position in Seattle but after expressing interest in possibly working in other locations including OC, I was switched to applying for an available position there. Most communication was via email and I was informed whether I would be continuing to the next step within 4 business days of my interviews.

Interview Details – The hiring process is extremely quick. I had a phone interview with HR, another phone interview the next day with a dev, and flew out the next Friday for an on-site. The entire process was very professional, and I was delighted that at the end I hadn't spoken to a single person with terrible English speaking skills (as is common in the industry).

The interviews are *extremely* easy for a top-tier tech company. Sadly I think they're far too easy, and a lot of not-so-good engineers get through.

Negotiation Details – I wasn't a college hire so I was able to negotiate, if I had any advice to give it would be to not be afraid to ask for what you want.

Interview Details – I applied to amazon months before until they actually contacted me. Im assuming they do seasonal recruiting since i applied near the summer into fall and i get contacted in the winter.
I had 2 phone interviews. Both interviewers were very nice and helped when they thought it was necessary in order for you to succeed. The first phone interview was not difficult if you read all the questions on glassdoor that people posted and read the cracking interview book that somone did suggest in the intervews tab list. The book was extremely helpful. the second interview was majority coding questions and at the end of each coding question the interviewer would ask time complexities. After I ended the phone interview i thought to myself i made like 4 mistakes answering the first question and knew i was doomed from that point on. I received the generic rejection letter one week after the second phone interview.

the interview process for me lasted roughly a month because i interviewed right before the christmas vacation

Interview Details – I was called for a Project Interview. I was put in a team of unknown students and asked to solve a coding question, in a room full of other teams.

Writing code was important. I had only one face to face interview and expected some breaks.

Interview Details – Just had first phone Interview. Asked a bunch of background questions to which I think I talked to much maybe...But then he immediately moved into a simple coding question and then into a pretty tricky one. I tried my best and I'm not sure if I got through both. Afterwards, just chatted about the environment, work, management opportunities, etc which were important to me.

Interview Details – The interviewing process took about 4 weeks. There were 2 technical phone interviews followed by an on site visit that consisted of 6 technical in person interviews. They focus almost exclusively on your ability to manipulate data structures, design good object oriented code and solve basic/intermediate puzzles.

Given an arbitrary list of points and a point x, interpolate it's y value based on the two closest points to it in the list.

Given a Singly Linked List write the code to reverse it in place.

Given two Singly Linked Lists how do you find where they intersect. What if you can design the nodes? What if you can't design the nodes?

Design an in memory file/directory system. You must be able to open, modify and delete files/directories.

Interview Details – The recruiter from Amazon sent me an email saying that somebody has identified me as a potential candidate. The phone interview took 50 mins. Only one question, given a listed list and an integer, find two numbers in the list that sum to the given number; I was asked to code and also give the test cases. The question was straight forward, but the interviewer asked me to tell him the code exactly word by word (character by character). This took a lot of time. In the end, he asked if I have any questions. That's it.

Interview Details – Initially contacted by headhunter. Did 2 phone interviews, one basic HR, another one with a very nice programmer, followed by a programming challenge to send in. Then I was asked for an on-site interview in Vancouver. The on-site was really tough, 6 interviews back to back with no break (even lunch is a conversation with your potential manager and one of the IT managers higher-up).