Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 2,542 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 according to 2,542 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2011
Interview
Posted resume on Dice, contacted by their recruiter to set up phone screen. Their engineer called on time. Asked a few technical questions. First briefly went through my background. First question was how do we use MVC model in previous project. Interviewer does not have strong telecom experience, so had to explain to them in details. Second question was about inheritance and composition, explained to him as IS/HAS relationship. Was asked which one is better, I told me it depends on the system that you want to model, not one better than the other. Also was asked to provide real life example from previous project, instead of fake examples. Not sure how he takes my answer. Third question was to come up with algorithm to find intersection of two linked list. Interviewer was patient to guide through the thinking process, but still a pain. Came up one basic solution, then he asked for alternative solution to improve the performance. Gave him something like searching for sub-string. Don't know how he like it or not. Had brief conversation with him about their interview process is better for fresh graduate student rather than experienced engineer. He said Amazone is hiring for the whole company rather than specific group.
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Jun 2026
Interview
Empresa extremamente clara sobre o que é pedido na entrevista e isso me mostra a seriedade. Minha experiencia foi positiva e tente se atentar a resolver o problema e não somente decorar padrões do leetcode.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Perguntas em ingles que envolve o STAR e testes técnicos
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together