Software Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer II roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 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 II according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Personality test: 25%
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Talked to a recruiter, then was placed on the calendar for a phone interview. Tech phone interview was very okay. Got asked a trick question about matrices, and answered correctly but the interviewer wasn't pleased for some reason.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2018
Interview
They usually have 2 phone interviews or a take home coding assessment. If this round is passed then you fly out to Seattle for 5 onsite interviews. All involved either data structures, problem solving or system design. Leadership principles were a common theme across all interviews so prepare examples well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a website visitor hit counter over the last minute. It should scale to millions of visitors.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was communicated over email by one of the Amazon engineers to apply for a position in aws. Once shortlisted got a mail to do coding online.
Then got a call for f2f which includes 4 rounds. They start in time and exactly follow the time.
I really felt I could have cracked it but couldn't make it through. Questions were not hard medium range questions but you need to write complete code and design needs to be good.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
online coding was 1:30mins and 15 mins for behavior and cultural fit questions. Coding had 2 questions one was on graph other one was on parenthesis related.