Front End Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 47% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Front End Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 49 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 Front End Software Engineer according to 49 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 15%
Presentation: 15%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Drug test: 4%
Group panel interview: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Nov 2019
Interview
There were some interesting Leetcode puzzles, solved remotely. I received a positive feedback and invitation for onsite interviews to UK. I was asked to learn some 14 or so Leadership Principles. I didn't expect it, but 75% of the time they were asking to remind the stories related to these Leadership Principles and only 20% for actual coding tasks or tech questions. The UX of the coding app was terrible, you have to scroll constantly to read a task and write code in a little text box. 6 long hours (including the breakfast). Ugh. Remote interviewers were constantly loosing the connection. The interviewers were looking like they didn't sleep for months. After the interviews I had a feeling like I was raped. The feedback was that I did great, but they found a better candidate.
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Damn Leadership Principles stories, 2-3 positive and 2 negative for each principle. Basic HTML, CSS, JS puzzles. One Leetcode-like problem.
The process was standard for a front-end role. It began with an initial recruiter screening followed by a technical phone interview focused on JavaScript fundamentals. Afterward, there was a virtual onsite consisting of three rounds: a live coding challenge (DSA), a specialized React/system design round, and a final behavioral culture-fit discussion with the engineering manager.
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Can you explain the difference between the Task (Macrotask) Queue and the Microtask Queue in the JavaScript Event Loop? Specifically, how does the browser prioritize Promise resolutions over scheduled callbacks from a setTimeout function, and what impact does this have on UI rendering performance?
First part was general questions about my past work, the projects I’ve done, and my overall experience.
The second part was a 30-minute technical assessment done through a link they provided.
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General questions about my past work, the projects I’ve done, and my overall experience.
The interview process was an initial online assessment, a phone interview, and then a super round interview, with 3 interviews in one day. The problems weren't the most complicated, but the superround was challenging because the interviews are back to back.
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They asked me to implement a tic-tac-toe game in HTML and vanilla JS.