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%
Drug test: 2%
Background check: 2%
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The hiring process began with an online assessment (OA), where I was tested on coding skills and problem-solving abilities. After passing the OA, I had a brief HR screen to discuss my background, motivations, and fit for the role. This was followed by a phone interview with one technical person, who asked coding and behavioral questions. Next, I participated in a virtual on-site interview, which consisted of four rounds. Three rounds focused on coding challenges, while the final round was a system design interview, assessing my ability to architect and scale complex systems.
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.