Software Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 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 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2025
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Gave the Online Assessment for OA. Was invited to schedule the final loop interview within one month. I requested some additional time to set up the interview. Was finally scheduled for interview couple of months later
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1st round - was asked to solved an LLD and a DSA problem. Unfortunately the interviewer had issues with live code sharing and we had to cut the interview and i was only asked one DSA problem
Amazon SDE Final Loop Prep (3 x 60 mins – LeetCode + LP):
Coding: Practice LC mediums + key patterns: arrays, trees, graphs, recursion, sliding window, heap. Be ready to explain your approach clearly.
Leadership Principles: Prepare 5–6 STAR stories (e.g., Ownership, Dive Deep, Bias for Action).
Each round = ~30 mins coding + 30 mins behavioral.
Focus on clean code, edge cases, and structured thinking.
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Basic LPs with deep dive follow-ups.
LC - Trees, Heaps and HashMap
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2024
Interview
VO, then three back-to-back interviews, each lasting one hour. In each round, they’ll ask 2–3 behavioral questions and give you one medium to hard leetcode, with some follow-up questions after
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Tell me about a time you disagreed with a team member. How did you handle it?