Software Development 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 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 423 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 Development Engineer according to 423 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 30%
Presentation: 15%
Phone interview: 13%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Background check: 6%
Other: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in Feb 2015
Interview
This is an interview on campus, one round in total. Amazon HRs went to our campus to provide two sessions of online assessments, a few people in one room doing the assessments monitored by the HRs. After 10 days of the online assessments, I got the offer. The HRs are very nice and this is a great interview experience overall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first session is about algorithm and software, very simple code corrections to satisfy the requirement; the second session is about English Critical Logic, given paragraphs and asking single or multiple choice questions.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together