Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amplitude with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 31.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amplitude overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amplitude as a Software Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
Skills test: 21%
One on one interview: 16%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
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Recruiter pre screen to review position and resume. Technical 1 hour with simple coding challenge. Technical 4 hour with system design question, coding and behavioural with manager. Final recruiter interview to reflect interview process.
SDE 2 - Interview had about six total rounds, including the recruiter conversation
1. After my resume was shortlisted a recruiter set up a 30 minute call with me to understand more about my background and my fit for the role
2, then was a technical screen over Zoom with the staff engineer where they asked a low level design style coding question ( not the typical leetcode round ) - you would be required to share your own IDE
3. After clearing the technical round was the loop round with 4 rounds
- System Design round
- Project deep dive : share a project of your choice and explain the architecture, design decisions, and different aspects of the project. A principal software engineer took this interview for me, so there were a lot of questions related to the design choices, current drawbacks of the design, some improvements , etc . This is a 1 hour round so be prepared.
- Hiring Manager Round : standard behavioral questions
- Data Structures and Algorithm ( similar to technical phone screen , you would be required to share your own IDE )
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- share a project of your choice and explain the architecture, design decisions, and different aspects of the project. A principal software engineer took this interview for me, so there were a lot of questions related to the design choices, current drawbacks of the design, some improvements , etc .
- distributed cache with some follow up questions. I practised using Hello Interview. In the interview, they didn't really ask to design it from the scratch. They have a system design diagram with some pitfalls ( eg writes are slow ) they would ask you targeted questions like what could you do to imrpove write efficiency. Then they ask followups on your answer. Overall, it was more like a 60 minute discussion on your choices.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amplitude (San Francisco, CA) in Oct 2025
Interview
You will have a recruiter screen who asks about your background and takes your resume and their notes to a HM. The HM determines if and which loop you will interview for. If you are advanced, you then will have a FAANG-style coding screen. If you pass, you will have a FAANG-like onsite, with some slightly* (not totally) unique rounds to Amplitude's process. Process took about four weeks from recruiter call to decision.
The interviewers here were very low-ego and easy to get along with. The recruiter, on the other hand, was uncongenial throughout and ultimately appeared to deprioritize my communications.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amplitude
Interview
Recruiter chat
take-home technical screen on Hacker Rank (i.e. no interviewer)
recruiter ghosted me after my technical. got no feedback or replies even after reaching out. Did the technical within a day of receiving it and well within the given timelimit
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are given a JS object describing an employee. You are also given a schema object describing the prescribed types for properties on an employee object. Compare the employee object to the given schema object and return an error for various bad states (e.g. wrong type, missing field, etc) or OK if the object conforms.