I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX) in Feb 2013
Interview
After I submitted my resume in university career fair. I got 2 round on campus interview. All techinical questions, actually not about the project experience too much. The first round is by AMS manager who seems pretty nice and interested in large scale computing. The interview went nice and I need to write code on a paper briefly about my solution. Second round is by 3 interviews together,45 min each with an engineer. The problems are like link list, priority queue, binary search tree and almost all has been mentioned somehow in career cup or so. Take a look at the interview preparation website is a great help. They seems like the free and open culture in Amazon and they have great passion about their job. Very nice.
Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Amazon
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.
The journey began with an online assessment containing two coding problems (one algorithmic, one mathematical) and a brief work-style survey. Following a successful screen, I completed a 45-minute phone interview focused entirely on behavioral questions, requiring me to recount past experiences using the STAR method
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager."
During the coding round, I was thrown a problem on edit distance that felt eerily familiar. Mid-way through, I realized it was the same question I had practiced on PracHub just a few days earlier. The interview included a system design question about the Amazon Locker service, which required me to think through various components and customer flows. The final round involved behavioral questions that focused on leadership principles. Overall, the process was challenging but fair, and I was thrilled to receive an offer that I happily accepted.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Compute the edit distance between two strings and walk through the DP table and optimizations.
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 3,660 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 3,660 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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