Software Development 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 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 35 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 Development Engineer according to 35 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Phone interview: 20%
Presentation: 18%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Drug test: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
Other: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Skills test: 6%
Background check: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
I met the Amazon recruiters at my colleges career fair and attended their on campus info session. The info session was run by software and hardware engineers who were recent graduates from my school. After applying online, a couple weeks later I was set up with a flight out to their office in Seattle. I was surprised that there was no screening process before this on-site interview, but it could have been a result of talking to the on campus recruiters.
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It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together