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 an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2016
Interview
2 basic OA and an onsite interview. The second OA is a disaster. First, the proctor asked me to remove everything on my table, and use a mirror to reflect the place behind the computer, which is very improper and troublesome. Furthermore, there is a typo in the API. Can you believe that? A typo in the API!! They spell "arbitrary" as "abritrary", thus I cannot access the field of the class they give me. Due to this silly mistake, my code couldn't even compile. But anyway, I pass the second OA and flight to Seattle for the onsite. I think I did very well in the final round. I completed all 3 milestones, including the 3rd which they said is optional. And I got 99% success rate. My friends got the offers while they only got 80%. And I don't think I did bad in other part of the interview. I feel very disappointed about this company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode 138. Copy List with Random Pointer Add to List QuestionEditorial Solution
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.