Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 657 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 657 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 17%
Phone interview: 13%
Presentation: 13%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 5%
Drug test: 3%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2016
Interview
I was contacted by an recruiter. She sent over a link for an online technical round. This had 4 questions, 1 coding and 3 theory questions (time complexity)related to the coding questions.
I was invited for an onsite interview. The interviewer's were friendly. Asked me standard questions similar to the ones you see in CTCI. There were 5 interviews, and I did well in 4 of them. I couldn't get the solution in one interview. The interviewer was giving me hints but I couldn't figure out the answer.
Overall it was a positive experience.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.