Senior Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 57% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 51 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 Senior Software Development Engineer according to 51 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 32%
One on one interview: 19%
Skills test: 14%
Group panel interview: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2017
Interview
It was a 5 rounds of behavioral, Coding and System design question.
Learn their Leadership skills, in every round, they ask you a question related to it, and spend about 20 mins deep diving into it!
Interview as such was straight forward DS & Algos but these leadership skills play a vital role in selection
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
1) About 8 different questions from Leadership skills
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Madrid) in Jan 2024
Interview
Recruiter send me an OA and even I did'nt attend it yet, she told me that I failed. After some research they notice they screen my previous OA result. I don't like this lack of system.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
First there was the recruiter interview to gather some information. Followed by 5 rounds "on-site remote" with average difficulty, but with some poor performing interviewers. Got denied and was promised feedback but got ghosted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- 2 algorithms - 1 System design - 1 Past experience software architecture and choices - 1 Code challenge - implement a validator
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2022
Interview
Typical Amazon procedure: recruiter reaches out. This time, instead of just clicking the delete button, I was actually intrigued with the team: their LEO satellite group.
Pretty much breezed through the HR interview, and then proceeded to the first-round screen. I aced the coding part, and thought I said everything they wanted to hear (coding solution, the (now 16, used to be 14!) Leadership Principles they seem to drink like Kool-Aid over there. Signs pointed to going to the next round of interviewing.
Alas, they passed on me, while continuing to hide behind their veil of non-accountability. Well, I'm done with these Darwin clowns. There are many other good opportunities out there, that are NOT Amazon!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linked-list question (aced it)
Find all 2x2 sub-arrays inside a larger array (didn't get to that, but I'm sure it's on Leetcode somewhere).
Post-word: I got approached by Amazon twice since then. No thanks!