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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I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2024
Interview
I had a tremendous amount of runaround and poor communication, the interview process got reset twice due to some kind of clerical error.
Most of the interviews were just fine but the system design with the HM felt pretty hostile and the interviewer did not seem to have thought about the domain elements of the problem at all.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Given a 1D height map of a terrain slice, calculate the water level at each position if it were full of water.
The 45-minute, one-on-one interview will focus on both behavioral and technical aspects. The behavioral portion will include questions related to leadership principles, such as those commonly found in Amazon’s Leadership Principles, where I will be asked to provide examples of situations demonstrating qualities like ownership, customer obsession, bias for action, or delivering results.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazon principle questions: 1, tell me a challenge you faced, what was your role and outcome
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Mar 2021
Interview
Online round
- one db and BFS based problem
Interview 1st round
- print top view of the tree
- max profit selling stocks
Design round
- Asked to design Google doc like system
Hiring manager round
- one topological sorting problem