Software Engineer SWE applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 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 55.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer SWE roles take an average of 2 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer SWE according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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it was good one mostly asked about DSA and system design problems and they asked me to do white board coding a normal Depth First search question. and first we have to clear a OA before hearing back from hr.
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England) in Oct 2011
Interview
I had 2 telephonic interviews for position software Engineering in Slough UK.
Interview Questions will consist of bookish definition of classes, objects, multiple inheritence, over riding , etc
Definite questions on bits/bytes hexa decimal
Situational questions to make use of sed or othger regrex rather than using long codes for searching.
About interviewers -> They are easy and clam .
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
typically questions consist of book defination of class and object, polymorphism , over riding etc
There will be definately questions on bits/bytes and small basic questions on Hexa decimal like
what is result if you add 1 to hexa F. ( there are good tutorials online which explains concept).
3) you may be ask to write small function to convert integer to bits or swap 16bits value
write a function to find 2nd highest value in an array. Basic questions on STL library , some baisc regrex questions , difference between left join right join ( only basic stuff). I guess w3school tutorial is fine incase if you want to refresh .
simple sql query using joins.