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 3,651 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 3,651 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 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderābād) in Aug 2012
Interview
First round was a online test held by careercup at the campus. Quetions were typically same as being posted on the sites.
After then there were 4 face to face interview rounds.
Interview rounds are purely Technical. Concern is shown for proper coding.
first interview round : 2 question were asked one from trees and other from semaphore and hash tables combined.
second interview round : this round deals with real life programming.1 program related to graph was asked. 5-6 theortical questions related to networking, computer architecture was asked
third round : 1 programming question related to binary tree was asked.
5-6 theorical question related to DBMS, C , object oriented design.
fourth round: technical and Hr mix. 3 programming question related to stacks, backtracking and nary trees.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
given a binary search tree with root node r. now a specific node n is changed to root. write a function so that the after modification tree remains binary search tree.
create a data structure for node of a nary tree other than child-sibling node. now a nary tree is given with cb node. convert it into a tree with the nodes defined by you. inorder traverse the tree.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
first round was leetcode for 1hour, got easy 2 questions
then final round has 2 leetcode session and 1 system design and 1 lld session. each session has also leadership principle.
Leetcode questions was easy-medium.
Leadership principle was hard
I had issue with screensharing it wasted 10-15 min during the first round of interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
leet code - array and string questions. easy and medium level
The interview was basically a screening round, It was just a quick interview to get to know if I was worth the company's time. The dsa round was pretty easy but once they got into system design it was harder.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked dsa questions like trapping rain water and a stack question similar to valid parenthesis.
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.