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 an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
Coding + Behavioral questions:
The interview will include a combination of coding challenges and behavioral questions, focusing both on your technical problem-solving abilities and on how you collaborate, communicate, and approach real-world team situations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode 56 merging intervals:
Given an array of intervals where intervals[i] = [starti, endi], merge all overlapping intervals, and return an array of the non-overlapping intervals that cover all the intervals in the input.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Ciudad de México) in Oct 2023
Interview
El proceso de entrevista me pareció realmente excelente. Aprecio la transparencia con la que explicaron cada una de las etapas y el nivel de exigencia que mantienen. Los ingenieros que me entrevistaron demostraron un alto nivel de profesionalismo, claridad técnica y una actitud sumamente respetuosa durante toda la conversación, lo cual reforzó mi interés en formar parte del equipo.
Behavioural:
“Tell me about a time you failed. What did you do and what did you learn?”
“Describe a time when you had to make a decision with incomplete information.”
Technical / Coding:
Data structures and algorithms: e.g., “Top K frequent elements”, “Longest substring with at most K distinct characters”.
System design: “Design a bookstore system where multiple books exist and you need to return the count of a particular word appearing in a boo
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioural:
“Tell me about a time you failed. What did you do and what did you learn?”
“Describe a time when you had to make a decision with incomplete information.”
Technical / Coding:
Data structures and algorithms: e.g., “Top K frequent elements”, “Longest substring with at most K distinct characters”.
System design: “Design a bookstore system where multiple books exist and you need to return the count of a particular word appearing in a boo