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. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2025
Interview
OA with 2 questions 70 minutes on HackerRank, then virtual onsite (3 rounds 1 hour each)
Virtual onsite rounds: 1. full behavorial/LP round, 2. two behavioral/LP and 1 coding question, 3. two coding questions for bar raiser round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavorial:
Why Amazon
Time when you got challenging problem
Time when you got problem and didn’t have much experience there
Time where you got hard feedback
Time you faced unfamiliar problem
Time when you had tight deadline, deliver results under pressure
Coding:
- Shortest Path for Delivery Queries. Similar to walls and gates. Multisource BFS
- string parsing. given list of strings with delimiters containing users and their attributes, determine all users with a certain attribute.
- top k most frequent things, given list of things
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jun 2025
Interview
1 Technical assessment and 3 Round Loop
Round 1:
LP round
Round 2:
1 medium and 1 hard
Round 3:
Design LRU cache and LP
First two rounds went well, though I couldn't fully answer the hard question, interviewer helped me a lot , third round interviewer was little off, after 30 minutes he asked me why can't I evict from the front of DLL and insert from the front.
I would rate myself 7/10. I could have done better.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Top K elements(heap) and median of two data streams(heap)
I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Londres, Inglaterra) in May 2022
Interview
data powers everything we do. We are a forward-thinking organisation that uses data to drive
innovation, inform decision-making, and create value for customers. With our commitment to
excellence, we continuously push the boundaries of data integration, ETL process and issue resolution.
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