Senior Developer 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 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 according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 20%
Other: 20%
Skills test: 20%
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It was a good experience but can be better. There should not be a coding assessment for senior level roles. This is an issue with all the big companies. hope they take this into consideration
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2021
Interview
I believe I answered the question correctly, honestly I am not sure why I got rejected, didnt get any feedback. I got asked a well known leetcode medium level question and gave a proper answer including the runtime.
Sometimes it was difficult to understand the interviewer's English, may be he didnt actually understand what I actually said, not sure really... Still trying to figure out... what actually went wrong.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2021
Interview
Total of 7 interviews lasting 7+ hours.
Two 1 hour interviews. Hackerrank/leetcode style programming tasks followed by behavioral questions.
The final loop of 5 interviews over 2 days. All interviews were remote.
Some things I learned.
The advice to have a couple of stories per leadership principle was useless. All behavioral questions were of "tell me about the time when you did X/reacted to Y/Z happened". There was no way to prepare for these kinds of questions. I honestly feel that I flopped on all of them.
After all programming tasks, I was asked to calculate time and space complexity. Nobody I know does that in practice but it is a must for interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
NDA but technical questions are available everywhere.