Internship applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Internship roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Internship according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 33%
Personality test: 17%
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The interview consists of only behavioral questions, not technical or practical ones. Every question of the 2 30-minutes interviews is of the type "tell me about a time when...", leaving too much subjectivity and bias to the interviewer... In fact, how can one assess if my answer is better than the answer of another potential candidate??
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you helped a peer during a project
Applied online. Immediately reveived psychometric tests. After a few months, was invited to an interview day of 4 30min interviews. First interview was an Excel task. Second was a role play. Last two were personal questions/ behavioural questions.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2021
Interview
I was interviewed twice the same day, each interview lasted 30 minutes. Be prepared for a coding question, you can practice in LeetCode. The interviewers were friendly. Apply the 17 Amazon Principles to your answers, they will be impressed.