Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
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Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Group panel interview: 33%
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I was in the stage of first technical round, I have answered the questions asked by the team and they had no further questions. I was under the impression that I did well but was not moved forward in the process and wasn't given any valid reason.
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Jan 2022
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Telephonic Round with Manager for the Alexa team. The manager who interviewed me was very technical and very humble, he took a good amount of time to explain the team and priorities and also clearly articulated what is required of the role. Not many have done this before to me but very impressive.
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More of the telephonic round with skills and requirement matching.
Interview at head quarters with multiple coding questions. Also had a phone screen before that senior year of college. Wasn't too hard overall in terms of algorithms. It was in a big room with lots of other candidates. Then they got back to me with an offer