Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 2.8 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 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 46 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Software Development Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Background check: 17%
Personality test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Atlanta, GA) in Feb 2014
Interview
Two 45 minutes interviews. Started with basic questions about me - projects I worked on and whatnot. They always ask about some of amazon core values. "how are you customer focused?" "Tell me about a time you dug deep into a problem." There are 14. You can look them up online.
Two coding questions per interview. A short one and a long one.
My interview fell on a snow day so I don't know if this is standard but the interviews were over the phone on collabedit. When I was at work my manager conducted similar phone screen interviews. But full time interviews required an on site white board thing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They always ask about some of amazon core values. "how are you customer focused?" "Tell me about a time you dug deep into a problem." There are 14. You can look them up online.
Two coding questions per interview. A short one and a long one.
It's been awhile so I don't remember exactly.
1st short one: ?
1st long one: Remove repeated elements from an array.
2nd short one: create a circular linked list with a search method
2nd long one: given an array of integers that represent stock values, find the best time to buy and the best time to sell
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together