Software Development Engineer I Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 74% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer I Intern roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 573 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 Development Engineer I Intern according to 573 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 22%
One on one interview: 21%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Group panel interview: 1%
Drug test: 1%
Other: 1%
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My Amazon interview process started with an online assessment that included behavioral questions based on Amazon’s Leadership Principles and a coding assessment.
After passing the online assessment, I moved on to the in person interviews. My first interview was with the hiring manager and focused mostly on behavioral questions tied to Amazon’s Leadership Principles. We also discussed my previous experience and projects. Toward the end, I was given a system design coding problem.
After that, I interviewed with a lead engineer and another engineer. That interview was more technical and included a LeetCode style coding problem. I had to explain my thought process, work through the problem, and discuss my solution with both engineers. Made it to the final round of interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on System design and LeetCode style question
Online interview, they sent a link for me to click whenever I wished, had to solve some problems and submitted it. That one was easy. The second one was a phone interview. They asked me questions about myself and hash table questions. Also, I had to solve some problems like "code a program that checks if a linked list is circular"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"code a program that checks if a linked list is circular"
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.
2 rounds:
1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences
Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant
2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project