Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 39 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 22%
Phone interview: 17%
Personality test: 11%
Presentation: 10%
Background check: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2016
Interview
I had two OAs(online assessments) and a video chat. Each OA took one to two hour to finish. You have to make sure your camera works because they may take pictures during the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In OA1, I did a lot of logic reasoning problems and one programming question. in OA2, one part is work simulation and the other part is programming of 2 problems. One problem is to find the minimum path sum from root to a leaf in a binary tree. The other is to find out if there is a path from a starting to a destination in a maze, where there may be obstacles on the way.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.