Software Development 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 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 2,544 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer according to 2,544 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Berlin)
Interview
First approach on Linkedin, then screen question on the phone, finally invitation in Berlin.
Where 5 rounds of interview.
I did pretty well in all of those but the last one, and even the last one wasn't very bad.
Finally the recruiter called me and he said that I wouldn't receive an offert.
Honestly I believe to have done pretty well in general, on the phone it complained about problem solving, which is basically the thing that I believe to do better in general. Didn't receive much feedback from the interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of standard question about algorithm and a very funny one about operation.
It was an open ended question about the creation of a system to encode videos on AWS.
Given files in S3, when a new file is add you can decide to put its name into a queue and now you have to encode (run a software with the name as parameter), using EC2 instance that you can spin up or tear down in a couple of minutes. The encoding process last around 6hr.
Do you use persistence or transient machine? What problems arise with those? What happens at peek load, what when there is not load? What if you are limited to the number of instance you can spin up?
Interesting
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 (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Jun 2026
Interview
Empresa extremamente clara sobre o que é pedido na entrevista e isso me mostra a seriedade. Minha experiencia foi positiva e tente se atentar a resolver o problema e não somente decorar padrões do leetcode.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Perguntas em ingles que envolve o STAR e testes técnicos