Senior Software 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 Software 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 Software Developer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
Skills test: 20%
Other: 20%
One on one interview: 20%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
- Recruiter Vetting
- Initial Technical Interview
- Group Technical Interview
- Goes through multiple rounds of Technical Interview including Systems Design and live coding
- All live coding interview are done through their Chime and internal platform
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design Login Management Infrastructure for a site. Main thing here is including OAUTH and modern setup instead of password based.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2021
Interview
A week after applying to the position, I received an automated e-mail saying that I was invited for a phone interview. This automated e-mail had no information about the interview process, or any information in general.
I specifically e-mailed the recruiter that had the contact information in the invitation, and asked for the content of the first interview. I was told that the first interview would be about the Leadership Principles and I should focus on preparing for those.
Even though I explicitly asked the content of the first interview, and was told that it would be based on the Leadership principles; they did a technical interview with me. The interviewer even insisted that the information I had about the process is wrong.
So to sum up; I was never directly contacted by a recruiter, I was given completely wrong information about the process when I asked, and my interviewer had no clue about the hiring process and did a technical interview even though I was expecting a behavioral interview.
I was not even contacted after the interview, and they didn't even reply to the email I sent after the interview in order to ask for clarifications. They really do not consider the applicants as human beings that spend a lot of their free time preparing for this, and they treat them like garbage.
I now see that all the similar reviews of Amazon's interview process in Glassdoor are incredibly accurate; and I will never lose time with this company ever again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer spent most of the time on computer networking questions, even though the position I applied to is not strongly correlated with networking knowledge.
I had a lengthy phone interview and was told I would hear back that day or the next for a followup. I never heard back. I'm fine with them not being interested, but they shouldn't set an expectation of being contacted if they aren't going to follow through.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was a first interview. They asked the standard first interview questions.