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:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Cluj-Napoca) in Nov 2020
Interview
Online , 3 steps
- 1st : code debugging
- 2nd: coding problems
- 3rd: " a day in the office " - real time simulation of a day in the office
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding problems :
- Merge 2 sorted linked lists such that the result is also sorted
- Forgot the details on this one , but pretty much backtracking on a N x M grid , finding the amount of pathways from top-left corner to bottom-right corner only going down or right
I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Sep 2019
Interview
Had to take a programming test where two questions were asked and had less than an hour to do them. Each question was about 25 minutes long. With good preparation, they should not be too difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a program that inserts the digit '5' into an existing number to make it the largest number possible.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2020
Interview
Very tough with 3 different stages. The first stage was finding bugs in problems as quickly as possible. The second was a workday simulation. And the third was the actual interview with an Amazon representative.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string with any characters in it, reverse the string, but only the letters. Any other characters must remain in the same index as the original string.