SDE-intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a SDE-intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
Background check: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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Company came for on campus placements. Only one round. And that includes dsa completely .3 questions to each student minimum . Some interviewers asked about projects also but mainly on dsa
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Sep 2025
Interview
The interview process consists of two technical rounds, each designed to evaluate different aspects of problem-solving ability:
1. First Round – Coding Assessment
The first level is a hands-on coding interview where candidates are given two programming questions.
The goal is to implement working solutions that successfully pass all the provided test cases.
This round primarily evaluates:
Logical thinking
Problem-solving efficiency
Code correctness and edge-case handling
2. Second Round – DSA Coding Interview
Candidates who clear the first round proceed to a more in-depth Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) interview.
This round focuses on:
Understanding of core DSA concepts
Ability to apply algorithms to real-time problems
Optimizing solutions for time and space
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given an array of student marks, find the minimum number of chocolates to distribute so that every student gets at least one chocolate and students with higher marks than their adjacent peers get more chocolates.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2025
Interview
First an oa round then a 1 hour interview. The interview comprises of 2 coding questions where you have to solve both problems with optimal time and space complexity. The interviewer also asked project related questions and the technologies used so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A question on prefix sum which was very hard to solve.