Software Development 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 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 50 days to get hired, when considering 10 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 Development Engineer according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 31%
Group panel interview: 8%
Skills test: 8%
Drug test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
Personality test: 8%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
There was a recruiter hiring for SDE's and posted the same on Linkedin. I contacted her and she said she would forward my resume to the team. It was a complete waste of time because after a week this recruiter emailed me saying they have evaluated my technical exercise and decided not to pursue my application. The mind boggling thing about this is I never received a technical exercise. After failed continuous attempts to get response from this recruiter I decided I will never apply for any jobs in amazon. I know they have a lot of candidates dreaming about getting in, but I will not be one of them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was there an interview? I am not sure. The recruiter might have answered the interview questions herself
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 (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