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 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 52.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 40 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 32 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 40 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 22%
Presentation: 14%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (West Lafayette, IN) in Feb 2015
Interview
Applied through University Recruiter. Had 2 hr long interview on campus. One hard bar raiser question and one simpler question. Data structures. Algorithms. The process was smooth and the recruiter as friendly. Recruiter a little slow to respond sometimes.
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.