Sr Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr Developer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 2 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 Sr Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
Other: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
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A few days after applying online I was emailed to do a phone interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to write a method were it's passed an array of numbers and a single number. I needed to return true if there was two numbers in the array that if added totaled the single number. I was then asked to rewrite it to make it run faster.
It was the phone interview round. Be a prepared about basic data structures. Do not try and prepare many questions but do basic coding right. They want to see whether you can write code in a real situations, so practising questiosn from Codin Interviews & other books wont help much. Talk as much as possbile, detailing what you are trying to achive through your code
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Quite easy question i suppose- Emulate inorder BST tree traversal without using recursion.