Software Engineer 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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The first part of the interview was a technical interview where they give you two HackerRank problems to code in your chosen programming language. The next part of the interview is more of a personality type of interview where they ask you what you would do or respond in certain situations that can arise while working at Amazon.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were running short on time to complete a project what would you do? A. ask for extension. B. prioritise this project and forget about all other work. C. Give up and tell your manager you can't finish this
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2024
Interview
Full day technical interview where I talked to 4 different people about leadership principals and did a mix of moderate to hard technical questions. Programming was done via an online terminal they had setup and annoyingly didn't have intelisense (or a comparable auto-complete), though compilation wasn't required.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a dictionary system for an old cell phone using a physical numerical keyboard.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2024
Interview
Very nice and helpful interviewers, giving feedback when necessary. Interview started with few behavioral questions which could be nicely answered using STAR technique, then 2 stage coding problem with medium difficulty.