Software Engineering 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 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering Intern roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 65 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineering Intern according to 65 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 20%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 4%
Other: 3%
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The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2010
Interview
I had two separate interviews from different engineers. Asked about my background, and got into technical questions. Some of the questions were interesting, but at times I couldn't understand the interviewer, and the one seemed preoccupied during the call.
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Question 1
What data structure would you use to find the 100 closest stars?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2026
Interview
system design and leetcode style question. It told me to design a system and walk through how everybody would be using it, what kinds of implementation it would need. As for the leetcode it combined a lot of leetcode problems together into one for an product recommendation system.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LP's and behaviorals and just normal questions about projects
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in Jan 2026
Interview
2 1hour rounds back to back. Both rounds start with a short conversation about myself and the amazon leadership principals then go into a leetcode medium style problem. The problems were on data structures and algorithms, mine specifically focused on graphs and graph traversals
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Question 1
Tell me about a time things didn't go your way and what did you do
online coding assesment, then 1 interview. first half of the interview was technical, second half behavioral. I was interviewed by a current swe at amazon, the behaviorals were very common and pretty easy, and there were two technicals, Both were about a medium level leet code question
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Question 1
Name one time were you’ve had to take initiative to solve a problem in the work place