Candidates applying for Graduate Developer roles take an average of 14 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 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Graduate Developer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
Group panel interview: 50%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Jan 2015
Interview
Online Application form asking for CV and usual question such as "why you want to work for the company" and "tell us a little about yourself". If successful, online coding test where given a problem and 60 seconds to solve it. if successful assessment day then where they will go through problems on a white board that you will have to solve. If successful they will give you an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given a 2D array which is populated with numbers. The 2D array simulates a map where a country is defined by a number who's neighbors are different numbers to them. if the number neighboring are the same then the count as one complete country. Write an Algorithm which will go through a 2d matrix and count the number of countries
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Edinburgh, Schottland) in Oct 2014
Interview
- Online application
- Codility test
- ... (wouldn't know since I failed the codility test)
1 week after my online application, I was invited to take an online codility test. I had one week to do that. I tried many examples in codility's website and went to take test. I had to write 3 methods in 90 minutes. It wasn't too hard. My 2 solutions worked fine, the 3rd worked but not in extreme cases so I failed.