Software Development Engineer III/Senior Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer III/Senior Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 7 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 Development Engineer III/Senior Engineer according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Phone interview: 27%
Skills test: 18%
Background check: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Other: 5%
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I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
2 phone interviews followed by one written exam and onsite interview. Most of the questions are around algorithm and data structures. Look for trees and hash tables and distributed designs
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Application
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
I have initiated communicated with recruiter via linkedIn.
On next day the first phone interview has been scheduled.
At total, during next 2 weeks had 4 phone interviews.
After last one i have been invited to fly to Seattle for one day on site interview.
The overall experience is very positive.
The recruiters works very fast, waited no more for 2 days to get result from phone interview.
The onsite interview I did on Friday and next Tue afternoon I got a job offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The technical questions was very interesting but nothing not expected. Cannot share more information, since has been asked not to publish it.
I applied through other source. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, MA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Reached out to Amazon Recruiter via LinkedIn. The Recruiter responded very quickly. After a Phone screen by the recruiter, got scheduled for a local Hiring-event in Cambridge.
The interview was a typical 4-hour long event. 5 different sets of people, each chatting for about 45mins. I did 4 of the 5 okay...took a little longer to come up with the answer they were looking for in one case. Oh well...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program to generate a "Unique Ticket" for each request. The number of requests could be quite large - up to a million per second.