SDE-intern 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 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a SDE-intern according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Personality test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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OA with 2 medium questions, behavioural/culture survey screen, and a final technical interview where difficulty varies from easy - hard. It is very interviewer-dependent as your interviewer typically isn't the person who is going to hire you for their team and is randomly assigned.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Sunnyvale, CA) in Dec 2024
Interview
45 minutes technical, 15 minutes behavioral. I interviewed with an SDE manager and was expecting the behavioral first but he jumped into a leetcode question. Not the worst but also a little nerve wracking because he was pretty no expression
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2025
Interview
1. Self-introduction
2. BQ (The interviewer took notes according to the Situation, Task, Actions, Result framework explicitly.):
First BQ: Tell me about one time you went above & beyond.
Second BQ: Tell me about one time you finished a task within a tight deadline and with limited resources
3. Coding: LeetCode 79 Word Search (time&space complexity)
Write your code on the codepad, then dry run the code. There is no need to run the code.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First BQ: Tell me about one time you went above & beyond.
Second BQ: Tell me about one time you finished a task within a tight deadline and with limited resources
Coding: LeetCode 79 Word Search