Intern - Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Intern - Software Engineer roles take an average of 60 days to get hired, when considering 2 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 Intern - Software Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 50%
One on one interview: 50%
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Began with a three part technical interview that was mainly coding then a virtual interview that lasted for about an hour. Which was mainly about the interview question, no behavioral questions asked.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in Oct 2020
Interview
I applied to Amazon internship through employee referral. The first three rounds were online one after another within a period of one to two weeks. The three parts were debugging, coding and work simulation. The next step was the final interview. The final interview has behavioral questions revolving around leadership principles and coding question (leetcode helps) . I was disappointed with the overall process mostly because the emphasis was on speed and memory rather than on thought process originality.
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leetcode questions and behavioral questions based on leadership principles
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
Interview
Pretty long -- first you have to complete 3 rounds of online assessments. First, you have 21 minutes to debug 7 methods, then you have your typical 100 minute coding challenge (which also came with a workstyle assessment), and the third round was a workplace simulation. After the online portion, I had a 45-minute phone interview.
My phone interview experience was extremely disappointing. I have never had such an unprofessional, uncourteous interviewer who explicitly accused me of cheating multiple times. The question he asked was pretty straightforward and common anyway (with only like 2 possible solutions from my knowledge), so I think it's highly likely that an interviewee would write code that resembles the sample solution. Also my camera was on (and my webcam is at the bottom of my screen), so I feel like it would have been pretty obvious if I was typing on a different tab or something. If he thought it was suspicious that I got the answer so quickly, he could have asked a different question or maybe added an extension so I could prove my understanding. Anyway, I hope no other candidates experience such terrible treatment from Amazon interviewers, but I was just appalled by the fact that instead of assuming that I had prepared well for my interview and really knew the concepts, his first instinct was to accuse me of cheating.
He also continued to make me feel uncomfortable throughout the behavioral portion of the interview as well (he just had a consistently unfriendly attitude towards me for some reason), and didn't even let me finish asking questions at the end of the interview. So I'm expecting a rejection, but even if I somehow get an offer, I will not be accepting it.
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In general the OA questions were pretty manageable (probably leetcode medium at worst), and I got a pretty easy question about binary trees during the phone interview.