SDE-intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SDE-intern roles take an average of 58 days to get hired, when considering 448 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 SDE-intern according to 448 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 22%
Phone interview: 15%
Personality test: 12%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Group panel interview: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (California, MD) in Mar 2025
Interview
first amazon principles and then the leet code. he asked behavioral question like what would you do in this and afterwards what will u do to improve that and then he started the coding he asked me medium level leet code but when I solved it quickly he began to give me test cases which I already thought of so I solved that too but still got rejected.
shortlisting, then oa on 2 coding questions and behavioural questions, then 2 rounds of technical interviews. Most of the questions included dsa , have to tell bruteforce, optimal along with time nd space complexities
Had one virtual interview with an engineer. Prior to that, there was a online assessment with a leadership assessment (behavioral). Process was smooth. Heard back within reasonable time (1-2 weeks).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
valid brackets on leetcode and we dove a bit deeper
First there was an online assesment and two rounds of tech interview where each round had 2 dsa problems which were lc medium and some behavioral questions and project related question.