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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First of all, I had an interview with a recruiter from the company.
Next, I had a technical interview with two senior software engineers from the company. I did my best, but my technical expertise didn't meet their requirements.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Ramon, CA) in Sep 2025
Interview
5 hours of onsite interviews. For each interview, about half of the time is spent on behavioral questions and one interview is entirely dedicated to behavioral questions. The coding problem was related to task execution order given a dependency tree.
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Question 1
The coding problem was related to task execution order given a dependency tree.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Berlin) in Oct 2022
Interview
It was a very confusing interview, for around 40 mins I tried to explain the interviewer what is asynchronous programming, in the last 10 mins he gave me a chess game programming question