Security Engineer Intern 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 83% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Security Engineer Intern roles take an average of 11 days to get hired, when considering 6 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 Security Engineer Intern according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 40%
Group panel interview: 20%
Personality test: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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Online application, got contacted by recruiter. Interview was 2- 60 minute interviews. Topics were scripting (short simple application exploit script). Questions regarding application security, digital forensics and incident response. Questions were situational and specifically created to judge the way we thought about the scenario. Behavioral questions were included in both rounds.
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Question 1
Given a hard disk, where would you look to find instances of an illegal remote login. Same for installed apps
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Arlington, VA) in Jan 2025
Interview
2 consecutive rounds for 60 minutes each - first technical with coding and secure code review - second completely technical security concepts and threat modelings. Before that OA was sent.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
Interview
Applied through linkedin. Received email saying I am moving forward to interview rounds. They conducted an online session to prepare candidates with what to expect in interview, really nice of them. There wre two rounds, one after the other. One core technical and another LP focussed [leadership principle]. Technical had a lot of network security focus in depth and web security questions in depth regarding XSS and CSRF. LP round was entire behaviour based, grilled about situations and judged for usage of LP in them.