SDE-intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SDE-intern roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 3 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 SDE-intern according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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The interview process consisted of two rounds:
Behavioral Questions (BQ): Focused on Amazon's Leadership Principles, covering teamwork, problem-solving, and handling conflicts.
Technical Questions (LeetCode-style): Included data structures and algorithms problems, mainly covering arrays, trees, graphs, and dynamic programming. The questions were of medium difficulty.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the questions was about designing a scalable URL shortening service (like TinyURL). I answered by explaining how to handle hashing, database sharding, and high availability using AWS services.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Raleigh, NC) in Jan 2025
Interview
It was good. 2 behavioral questions. 1 leetcode medium question. The behavioral were based on the leadership principles and the leetcode question was based on topological sort. Cant share the exact questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 behavioral questions. 1 leetcode medium question. The behavioral were based on the leadership principles and the leetcode question was based on topological sort. Cant share the exact questions.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
2 tell me about a time questions and a leetcode question. The leetcode question was Word Break II and the interviewer told me not to worry about the time complexity too much.