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 online. I interviewed at Amazon (Virginia City, NV) in Jul 2025
Interview
Behavioral questions using Amazon’s Leadership Principles (e.g., "Tell me about a time you failed," "Invent and simplify", "Bias for action").
System Design-lite question: For SDE-1 level, it was a simplified backend design task like designing an endpoint for a feature (not full system design).
Project discussion: I explained my work at current company (GenAI integration, Spring Boot APIs, AWS Lambda) and how I solved specific challenges.
Largo y tedioso en donde se realizaban varias pruebas de varios tipos que te pueden llevar sobre las 3 horas como minimo asi qyeu ten encuenta tener much0 tiempo y paciencia prque es un proceso largo
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bostonia, CA) in Jul 2025
Interview
It was great and went really well and the coding part was tough and when coming to system design I think I need out more effort in it . I given my 100 percent to successfully crack the interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you had a goal to reach before deadline and there is not enough time for you complete the goal so tell me what you did and how you managed to reach the goal