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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Great, coding question followed by behavioral.
Total time was two hours. Done virtually so coded on a website where the interviewers could see my code. Asked basic STAR stuff for behavioral so just prep a bunch of examples.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2025
Interview
Started with an OA, followed by a virtual onsite. 3 Rounds consisting of DSA, LLD, and Behavioural questions. Strict emphasis on Leadership Principles. Most questions that were asked were related to Heaps. The entire process took 5 months.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you were able to deliver under a tight deadline, followed by the opposite of this question.
Interview question was divided into two section, first one is leadership principle followed by one dsa question. Dsa question was related to deque , but could also be solved using the binary search
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Deque question, asked to find the second maximum in sliding window