SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 180 days to get hired, when considering 1 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 SWE Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
IQ intelligence test: 25%
Personality test: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 25%
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Not too hard as long as you have things to talk about and have leetcoded a good amount. Study that leetcode and data structures and it was fine. Overall, not a bad interview and enjoyed the process.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2025
Interview
Took an OA with 1 LC Easy and 1 LC Medium. Then was asked to do a technical interview over zoom with an engineer, Got a LC Hard in my interview but it was off of the LC 150 so it was doable. Was given an hour and got the offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the median of a input stream of integers in O(1) time.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bellevue, WA) in Jan 2025
Interview
The interviewer was nice and helpful. He asked the right questions and helped guide my answers towards what he wanted to get out of it. We talked about interests and love for CS towards the end. It lasted a whole hour instead of the normal 45 mins.