Sr Software Engineer 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 50% 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 Sr Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
Group panel interview: 25%
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Fun, easy going, nice chat, happy convo, would do again. Best time of my life. Why make people review? Dilute the concrete reviews. Must write 30 more words. How is this not 30 words yet
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2020
Interview
First Online assessment. Then a virtual onsite consisting of 4-5 rounds with questions around behavioral (amazon leadership principles), DSA, System Design. They expect high scale examples for behavioral questions. DSA questions are mostly from the most frequently asked questions. And system design can be anything so you might want to be creative and try to read up on MVC/ Micro-services architecture/ CAP theorem/ scalability/ load balancing / security etc
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Sep 2020
Interview
screening interview - 1 hour, two coding tasks
5 interviews after (one hour each):
- soft skills,
- problem solving,
- algorithms,
- data structures,
- architecture.
On each part, there were questions to prove I've got some of their values.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build an architecture of a log system like Cloud Watch.