Software Engineer I 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 I 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 I according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 22%
Phone interview: 17%
Personality test: 11%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Portland, OR) in May 2013
Interview
I was contacted through LinkedIn, I had 2 Phone interviews. The first interview was pretty standard with a recruiter to weed me out and ask me some questions relating to my background, experiences, and career goals! The second interview was with a fellow Amazon AWS Software Engineer, they did a cooperative document and I was asked a lot of Javascript questions. Most of the questions tested my overall skill with JS and background CS knowledge.
The interview was basically a screening round, It was just a quick interview to get to know if I was worth the company's time. The dsa round was pretty easy but once they got into system design it was harder.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked dsa questions like trapping rain water and a stack question similar to valid parenthesis.
Recruiter screen, online assessment, technical interviews, and behavioral rounds focused heavily on Amazon Leadership Principles. The process was structured, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving, coding skills, and examples demonstrating impact and ownership.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.