Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 Development Engineer (SDE) Intern according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Group panel interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Other: 25%
Personality test: 25%
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2023
Interview
After applying online via my CV I was contacted via email to complete an online assessment divided into 2 parts: one with coding and the other with questions about the workstyle.
The first part consisted of 2 medium difficulty problems that I managed to complete without too many problems and quite efficiently, managing to pass all the test cases.
The second part consisted of personal and work style questions, such as "do you consider yourself a more positive or negative person?" or "do you feel comfortable in new contexts?".
I answered this part as I thought best, trying to respect Amazon's principles, even if it was difficult to think of how to apply them to the right questions.
Unfortunately, despite my excellent score in the coding assessment, I was sent an email the following day saying that I had not been selected to continue the interview process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you consider yourself a more positive or negative person?
Standard LC mediums, nothing too crazy. Interviewer was pretty chill and was helpful in pointing me in the right direction when I needed as well. Only thing I would probably change was to study more on graph problems before hand.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given an 0-indexed integer array weights, where weights[i] represents the weight of the i-th marble, and an integer k.
Your task is to divide the marbles into k bags such that:
No bag is empty.
Each bag must contain marbles from a contiguous range of indices. That is, if a bag includes marbles at indices i and j, then all marbles with indices between i and j (inclusive) must also be included in that same bag.
The cost of a bag that includes marbles from index i to j (inclusive) is defined as weights[i] + weights[j].
The total score of a distribution is the sum of the costs of all k bags.
Return the difference between the maximum and minimum possible scores among all valid distributions.
Applied online and received an Online Assessment. It consisted of two LeetCode-style coding problems with a time limit . The process was straightforward and fully automated with no human interaction at this stage.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve a coding problem involving array manipulation under a timed online assessment
There were 2 rounds- one DSA round and one HR round.
In the first round they asked me a DP + trees question which was of medium to hard difficulty.
In the second round the interviewer asked me about my resume, my projects, some computer fundamental questions.