SDE 1 applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3.2 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 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SDE 1 roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a SDE 1 according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Personality test: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Palo Alto, CA) in Jun 2026
Interview
1 Technical Screen + 4 onsite rounds.
The onsite had 3 coding rounds and 1 Bar raiser
Two coding rounds were relatively easy. Questions asked were House robbers and an alternative version of String Compression.
Coding round with Hiring Manger was where I had the hardest time, This was the question Egg Drop With 2 Eggs and N Floors.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
House robbers and an alternative version of String Compression. Egg Drop With 2 Eggs and N Floors.
Online Assesment - Consist of hacker rank leetocde, behaviroual questions, and a mock work situtaion, giving you chooice how you would respond to different situations.
3 rounds final interview,
All very similar, all very technical. Half leetcode vibes, and half behaviroual, which was more Amazon LPs
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asking me what is one thing I have been curious and learning outside of work
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA)
Interview
It was for a New Grad position in USA.
Totally 3 Rounds.
-> DSA Round
-> OOP Round
-> Behavioural Round
In DSA round, I had got 1 Dynamic Programming Problem (Climbing Stairs) and 1 HashTable Problem.
In OOP Round, I had got Custom Exception Handling Problem. I was asked about Microservices Design Patterns, Apache Kafka.
For Behavioural Round, I got frequently asked questions :
-> What was the most challenging work you had done.
-> Tell me about a task which you had to deliver under tight deadline.
-> And few more