Software Developer 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 Developer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 3,650 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 Developer according to 3,650 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 college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2013
Interview
I got an interview with Amazon when they had come to my University. We had a short (10 min) screening interview while taking my resume (About string matching if I remember correctly). I also applied for this position through my Uni's career center. The follow up occurred two weeks later and interview dates were scheduled - the interviews were on campus with Amazon employees. There were 4 rounds (each lasting about an hour). the 1st round was a short resume review followed by 30 min of knowledge questions covering C++, memory management, OS concepts and a coding question (on paper). The remaining three rounds were almost purely the coding type questions that Amazon is famous for and an object oriented design question (Hotel management system).
The questions asked were very very similar to those that are found in career cup - Anyone who practices those questions will be in a favorable position to tackle this interview as they will almost certainly encounter similar questions during the actual interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you design a 'latest viewed item list' type function for Amazon.
Recruiter screen, online assessment, technical interviews, and behavioral rounds focused heavily on Amazon Leadership Principles. The process was structured, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and examples demonstrating impact and ownership.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target