I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 in Nov 2015
Interview
First round is a technical phone screen with a guy who is very arrogant. The guy has a strong accent. I work with ppl from all over the world (Scotland, India, Russia) very well with no problem understanding them, but I have to try hard to understand this guy's accent and beg for repeat quite a few times, and he seems a little offended. I was given a coding question to solve on an online collaborating website. I solved it quickly, but when I explain the code to him, he couldn't understand. I tried explain to him using test data to go through the code, but he kept interrupting me and saying he didn't understand. I've never felt being tired talking before in my life. Then he let me put my code in IDE and test(I wrote in java) and he would do the same thing on his end. I felt relieved honestly cause we don't need to talk for a moment. At last I think he saw my code gave the correct output, because he didn't tangle on this problem any more, but jumped to the next question, after a long silence. After two days I got the reject email.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string print all permutations and some other basic knowledge questions
2 rounds , each round has 1 medium leetcode question and few behavioral questions for around 30 minutes which sums up to 1 hour total interview. They also asked few follow ups for the behavioral questions and for the medium leetcode questions you have suggest optimal approach if possible
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazon style behavioral questions that are available online
applied online, after a while got hr screening with background, availability and everything. Then followed by phone tech interview with team member/ tech lead, online coding question and java concept etc...
Meeting with manager + a coding interview then passed to the on-site round which consists of 4 interviews which involves coding, system design and leadership principles questions. They gave a call about the final decision whether it’s positive or not
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were many behavioural questions on all the interviews
A coding questions related to moving object in a grid, there was also one related to operation on big numbers
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Lab126 with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 24 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Lab126 overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Lab126 as a Software Engineer according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 49%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Skills test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Background check: 3%
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