Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 64 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 64 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 24%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 13%
Personality test: 13%
One on one interview: 12%
Group panel interview: 6%
Background check: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The interviewer believed he was technical, but repeatedly got the terminology wrong. He did not know the names of common languages (eg, awk) or commercial operating systems (eg Solaris, AIX) and described Amazon as not usung "stack" ranking, while public discussions had identified them as a using that as a ranking system.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find a solutiuon to an open-ended search problem (about 1 line of awk in the trivial case)
They provided a Java code fragment that was clearly wrong.
The process and questions were suggestive of lack of preparation on their part, or just possibly an attempt to misinform the applicant.
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.