I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2024
Interview
Round1- Online Assessment
Then 3 rounds of interview
1st coding round had a medium lld question with leadership principles
2nd coding round had a hard problem
behavioral round- pure leadership principles based questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to learn something in depth? What was the outcome?
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied around January 2025 and got an OA shortly after. From my memory it took around 2 hrs to complete. I got an interview loop invite around sometime in May and then in Early June I had 3 back-to-back interviews and got the offer a week later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions that tie to their leadership principles
It was okay. Took the whole day but they really communicated everything WELL. It was a design question, coding problems after coding problems then the merge sort or tree traversal question.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA)
Interview
It tested highly on system design, understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, and data structures and algorithms. Make sure to study LeetCode and make sure you know your system design. Thanks so much.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode question about arrays and hashing (medium - hard)
Software Development Engineer I applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer I roles take an average of 63 days to get hired, when considering 34 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer I according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 28%
One on one interview: 22%
Phone interview: 21%
Personality test: 12%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 5%
Presentation: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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