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 656 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 656 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 19%
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 online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2023
Interview
2 round
1st round is oa with 2 questions didn’t pass all the case for the 2nd question, they are both graph related. Then there’s a 20min behavior question. Forgot if there was a time limit for 2nd half.
Heard back from them about one and half month later
2nd round got interviewed with a sinner engineer who mentioned he just joined Amazon a month ago. Asked me a question on how to use Stack, to put on difficulty it was probably easy easy. Have no idea why they decided to reject me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you want work with Amazon and what life you expect with working with Amazon
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.
Recruiter reaches out after applying through Amazon careers, no referral. Had an initial OA, then after a month had four rounds in two days - three coding one system design. Each round had 30 min behavioral and 30 min coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were mainly hashmap, sliding window and interval related.