Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 51 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 38 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 51 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 27%
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 18%
Personality test: 13%
Presentation: 7%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Drug test: 3%
Background check: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
After a friend employee referred me, I was contacted by email. A test schedule was set and an online test was conducted. After that initial screening, the team flew into the city to undergo several interviews with pre-selected candidates.
It took the interviewers 4 hours to daisy chain and interview every candidate.
Interviewers asked questions regarding personal life, computer science, and problems in general.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Several software engineerings questions from algorithms to data structures to machine learning.
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.
The phone screen went longer than expected, focusing heavily on implementation details. The interviewer really grilled me on my approach to a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache, asking how I'd combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list. I felt well-prepared since I had gone through system design examples on PracHub, which made me comfortable discussing eviction policies. The later rounds included more technical questions and behavioral interviews, but in the end, I received an offer, though I ultimately decided to decline. Overall, I’d say the process was average, with solid questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and implement a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache supporting get(key) and put(key, value) in O(1) average time. Walk through combining a hashmap with a doubly linked list, eviction policy when capacity is exceeded, and how you'd extend it to handle thread-safe concurrent access.