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 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 13 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 42 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 27%
Phone interview: 18%
Personality test: 18%
One on one interview: 18%
Background check: 9%
Presentation: 9%
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Interview
Initially I think there are a couple of phone interview rounds with a little tricky but simple questions on data structures and algorithms. It typically includes a programming task. They love the java collection framework, trees and graphs. Interviewers are nice to talk to and expect to understand your approach to a problem too.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Simple questions like :
1) what happens when a url is typed in a browser ?? how is the request completed ??
2)find all the numbers in an array that are repeated odd number of times.
3)given the root node and depth traverse the tree and print all nodes till that depth.
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.