Amazon.com Software Engineer Intern Interview Questions & Reviews
Updated May 2, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted May 2, 2012
4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 (took 4 weeks)
During the interview, they first ask me to introduce myself and go through my resume. Picked one of the most impressive one (they feel impressive...not me...) and ask me some more details. And they started to ask some kind of basic programming and probability problems. Programming questions would not be so tricky, but the probability one is really challenging for me.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer- Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 27, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
2 Phone interviews, which each began with general, quick questions and ended with a half hour coding challenge.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 20, 2012
3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
1)Introduction
2)Find 2nd largest integer
3)Integer division
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 5, 2012 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Met the HR rep at the university career fair, i was asked some simple array questions and it went pretty well
Got an email a couple of days later and scheduled an on campus interview, which is two 45min back to back technical interview. Both interviewer were very friendly and helpful
Interview Questions
1: make sure you are FULLY prepared before you attend the interview, they are not EASY. by FULLY prepared, I mean, do a very serious review on your data structures and algorithms!
2: Never begin solve the question before you completely understand what the question is asking. most of the time the interviewer's instruction maybe misleading, not quite accurate or hard to follow. If that happens, do not be afraid to ask for clarifications.
3: Try an example after you write your code. remember to take care of boundary cases such as empty array or null pointer exceptions
4: If you prefer working alone, let your interviewer know, they can let you working alone and come back, or they will try their best not staring at you.
5: Be FULLY PREPARED and good luck!
Negotiation Details
no negotiation since it's only an internship position
Other Details
The interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Background Check.
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 28, 2012
3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 2 days)
Two 45 minute phone sessions. The interviewers expect you to write down code and then read your solutions to them, it was my first phone interview process and i completely balked. I was not selected, the questions i thought were relatively easy though. One of the questions asked was how to find the min and max in an array and how to find the median in a set of elements. Make sure you write down the code and read it aloud to him.
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 26, 2012
3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 (took a day)
There were 2 back to back 45-min interviews on phone. They all started with resume reviews and basic data structures questions about hash-tables and linked lists. And then I was asked some coding questions.
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Software EngineEr Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 19, 2012
2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Phoenix, AZ (took a day)
hr scheduled the interview. 2 telephonic interviews. 45 minds each.
1. given 2 linked lists find the unique elements in order of n time.
2.find max height of n ary tree
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 15, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Two one to one phone interview, each 45 minutes. First one ask a few simple behaivor quesitons and some technical questions. But he mentions a concept that I never heard about. The second one are pure technical quesitons about programming and algorithm. Second one is harder than the first one. The intervewers are all patient and nice. Great experience.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 1, 2012
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 Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 31, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
Received email for full time position. I declined and asked for an internship position. They setup two back to back phone screens on one day. Cleared them and appeared for the next phone interview 2 weeks later.
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