I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2017
Interview
After a month of scheduling and taking tests online I traveled to Amazon's office only to find an internal scheduling problem meant one person was not available and the whole interview was cancelled. I asked if I could do a partial interview and follow up later with the final person and they said they can't do that and I have to reschedule the whole thing.
I worked with several different recruiter and none of them were coordinating with each other well. I was told by one recruiter that I was listed as confirmed for a new interview but I had never confirmed this.
I ended up interviewing in person and found out the role was an Amazon Level 4 role with a different title than the Level 5 position I was told before hand I was interviewing for.
Also, I found out once I showed up in person that I was interviewing to work with a technology that is not one of my strengths and it was a bit baffling they had me interviewing for it.
The actual interview was as described here on glassdoo in difficulty and scope. It lasted a little over 4 hours and they screened for tech skills as well as personality traits. The interview was comprehensive but not difficult.
The whole process was a disaster and wasted much of my time as well as the time of the Amazon employees who were interviewing me. I ended up taking several days off of work at my current job to apply for a junior position I would not have accepted anyway.
It ended with me not receiving an offer but the main recruiter did offer to answer any questions by email. I asked if there was another role or team I should look at for another interview and my emails were ignored.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked to use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to answer questions and it was worthwhile to have studied about this is advance. Read up on this before interviewing at Amazon and you will have a much easier time.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Springfield, IL)
Interview
Interviewed by HR. Hiring managers who actually know the job should be doing interviews and HR strictly limited to phone screen basic questions only!
HR screen
Hiring manager
interview loop which I was told will be with 3 or more interviewers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewed by HR. Hiring managers who actually know the job should be doing interviews and HR strictly limited to phone screen basic questions only!
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
Interview
Online accessment, two coding questions and work style assessment, codings need to be solved in 70 mins, work style assessment is all about Amazon leadership principles, make sure your answers align with the leadership principles
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
two popular questions from previous, one is to design keyboard
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2022
Interview
The Online Assment included two portions; a more traditional leetcode style algorithms challenge and a 'on the job simulation'. The latter part was bizarre and felt like either I, or the person who created it, was deep in a fever-dream. The algorithms challenge portion felt simple.
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Amazon interviews FAQs
Candidates applying for AWS Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 5 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 AWS Engineer according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 22%
Group panel interview: 22%
Phone interview: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 11%
Personality test: 11%
Presentation: 11%
One on one interview: 11%
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