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Anonymous Employee in Bengaluru
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Bengaluru)
It was good. A typical sde interview process . Focus on DSA and culture fit . Friendly interviewers. Process was smooth and was very quick as well. Projects are imp
- DSA, graph, binary tree, greedy

Anonymous Employee in Dublin, Dublin
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Dublin, Dublin)
It was a two round process the first round was one hour with being just general kind of problems solving and hr kind of questions. The second round was coding on a whiteboard.
- In the coding on the whiteboard round they asked me to write pseudo code to represent a game of Texas hold'em poker
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Anonymous Employee in Sydney
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Sydney)
Coding test which took 3 hours to complete. one 1hr phone interview (technical and behavioural) three 1hr interview (technical + behavioural). focused a lot more on the technical aspect of the solution
- Tree questions are quite regular

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
Coding assessment then a “phone interview” (which was actually a video call). My subsequent invitation to a second interview was later followed by Outlook’s automated “the sender would like to recall the message…” email, without explanation. Heard nothing for a week, when the recruiter then sent a generic rejection email with no mention of (let alone an explanation/apology for) the invite she tried to silently withdraw.
- A variety of networking / cloud architecture questions.

Anonymous Employee
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
I was a contractor, so my experience may be slightly different. I had a brief call with a recruiter for a general overview. My second call took place with one of the managers which lasted about 30 minutes. They asked me about my experience and then some theoretical questions. My final interview was with a member of the team that I would be working with. They wanted to get to know my personality better and to see if I would mesh well with everybody. Everyone was super nice. Then entire process took about two weeks.
- What is a stressful situation you’ve had in the workplace and how did you handle it? What is a situation you handle badly and how would you change it?

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
The interviewer would ask a few questions in Mandarin, and I was to answer as best as I could. It was a basic interview that asked you about yourself, your past employment and why do you want to join Amazon. Unfortunately I overestimated my Mandarin abilities and did not do well.
- What experience did you have? Why do you want to work for Amazon?

Anonymous Employee in San Jose, CA
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (San Jose, CA)
Two interviews: both are technical. The first interview asked ML questions as well as some applied math questions. The second interview was a ML coding interview. I got questions on Bias-Variance tradeoff, Naive Bayes classifier.
- How would you code a spam classifier for emails?

Anonymous Interview Candidate
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
Interviewed with recruiter. Recruiter was very helpful and was able to accurately convey their expectations. This was followed by a panel interview. The panelists seemed very tech focused and didn't seem to have a great handle on the actual business processes.
- Tell me about a time

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Arlington, VA
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Arlington, VA)
I had an interview with a recruiter first then technical interview with engineers. First interview was easy just basic HR questions. Technical interview was a bit difficult where they asked specific questions.
- How do you resolve conflicts with other teammates

Anonymous Interview Candidate in Nashville, TN
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Nashville, TN)
HR interview was scheduled for 20 min. I was a asked about my previous experience, salary expectations (even though he clarify it was not mandatory to answer) and what is the most important ability to manage customers.
- What is the most important ability to manage customer?
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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Amazon Web Services as 57.5% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.49 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Senior Technical Program Manager and Associate Corporate Counsel rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Staff Accountant and Audit Associate roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Amazon Web Services takes an average of 33.81 days when considering 983 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Data Center Technician had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Associate Solutions Architect Intern roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 180 days).
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services according to 983 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone Interview: 23.30%
One on One Interview: 19.75%
Skills Test: 18.89%
Group Panel Interview: 10.62%
Background Check: 9.54%
Personality Test: 8.28%
Presentation: 3.91%
Other: 2.92%
IQ Intelligence Test: 1.75%
Drug Test: 1.03%
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