Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 20 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 20 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 26%
Skills test: 26%
One on one interview: 19%
Personality test: 15%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Apr 2016
Interview
1. email for online assessment (6 questions 45 minutes to do)
2. follow up with a phone interview (final round)
Questions were basically about arrays, its time complexity, propose a searching algorithm for an array (binary search) how fast is that...etc. One scalability question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The time complexity of sorting an array and searching for an element in that array ( give the fastest approach )
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.