Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 48% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 3,656 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 Engineer according to 3,656 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 18%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 10%
Personality test: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (East Palo Alto, CA) in Jun 2018
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn. First technical round was via phone screen. The first round was typical coding question and i was given 30 mins or so to solve and optimize the solution. The recruiter notified me in 48 hours that I passed the first round and need to go for on-site interview to amazon HQ.
The second round interview was 4 hour long and i spoke to four engineers/leaders. The technical questions was medium-hard but the behavioral questions were more demanding. I did not personally enjoy the interview. As a senior engineer I expect the other side of the table to also try and sell the position, the team and what they think i can bring to the table .Instead the interview was very one-sided. They asked me too many questions about my experience and history . They also wanted to know the details of what problems I had solved and how i debug technical issues going back to 5 years ago because i was told that i should not pick the problems from the most recent experience.
In any case i do think their interview process is really methodical, structured and each person follows the guideline very closely, but i think it it better to also ask some hypothetical questions instead of grilling the interviewee about their past experiences and how they re-acted in different situations.
The recruiter called me two days after the on-site and did let me know the team decided not to move forward
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
typical computer science questions which required complete understanding of data structures, time complexities.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The process started with a brief 30-minute phone screening with a recruiter, focusing on my background and resume.
After that, I was invite to a technical video interview with a senior engineer. This round lasted about 60 minutes, starting with a brief introduction, followed by a live coding challenge on a shared editor, and ended with a few questions about system design basics and my past projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a function to find the first non-repeating character in a string and discuss its time and space complexity.
total 5 rounds - First OA assessment, quick telephone interview with recruiter, followed by 4 back to back technical and behavioral rounds. In technical round question were around topological graph sorting, cycle detection in linked list, and LRU cache. In behavioral round, the question were based on their 16 principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you manage the disagreement at your workplace.
I got a take home exam on HackerRank that I did not do great in. I did not perfectly solve every problem. Then it was another problem with "AI assistance" except the AI seemed programmed to be as useless as possible, it's genuinely better to just not use it. Somehow I got the next interview anyways, who also asked me some leetcode style questions and asked my to explain my experience and then next day they rejected me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the most complex problem I have encountered?