Software Engineer 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 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Vāranāsi) in Jun 2026
Interview
Interviewer start with introduction then I introduced myself and there was two dsa questions asked in first and two dsa questions in the second which i answered correctly and still got rejected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
first question was longest non-repeating substring and second was n -cpu cycle question
Second interview also has two dsa questions one is number of islands and second was dsa mathematics topic i dont remember actually
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2026
Interview
Behavioral questions + LeetCode questions or object-oriented design for all rounds. Aced all coding questions and behavioral questions with reasonable answers, still rejected. I would say it is really hard for an entry-level software engineer.
Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.