Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 54% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 46 days to get hired, when considering 24 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 31%
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 13%
Personality test: 10%
Presentation: 6%
Background check: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Phone call with engineer and then a manager. Didn't get any further than that. Manager was new and still learning how Amazon works. Would have preferred a more experienced person for the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something along the lines of what to do when a database server is a bottleneck.
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.