Senior Developer Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 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 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Developer Engineer roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 2 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 Senior Developer Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 20%
Other: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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Five rounds: logical coding, coding maintenance, hiring manager interview, behavioral round, and system design evaluation assessing problem-solving, code quality, communication, leadership ability, and architectural thinking across real engineering scenarios. Before everything there would be phone screening round
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Designing Amazon locker boxes which could be placed in shops, malls and so on.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2025
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First is online assessment with leetcode medium question + amazon work process simulation around system design. Second round was HR round which I passed as well. And it supposed to be on-site hiring event (loop interview) in Tokyo around September-October 2025, but suddenly process got frozen (I believe, because of layoffs started in Amazon later). And I was told maybe best case they will continue first quarter of 2026.
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I do not remember clearly, just leetcode medium and system design work simulator where the emails coming to your inbox and given choices you have to go with the best route in given scenario.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2025
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In person find errors in code, front end css accessibility, design a ui framework library and behavioral questions expecting star method. Free lunch building was nice. Questions were in line with what they outline in their interview guild
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Find circular dependency in a dependency tree. Writing on the white board