Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer (SDE) roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2024
Interview
First an online assessment, then a technical phone screening, followed by the loop interview. It was fairly wasy interview, but got confused by the interviewer in one on the loop interviews and other rounds were easy.
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Question 1
1st round was online assessment. 1 medium question and 1 hard question. I was only able to solve the medium one.
Next was technical screening. It was a graph question(walls and gates) and I was able to solve it quickly. And there were behavioural questions as well and the questions there were follow up questions on each leadership principle to understand the situation deeply.
Then there was a loop interview comprised of 4 technical rounds back to back. A system design round where I was asked to design AWS marketplace. Then there was problem solving round, the question was based on topological sort, but the interviewer confused me to design the system for solving the problem, and I provided low level design instead of the actual algorithm and this was the deal breaker. Then there was a DS and Algo round, which was similar to rotten oranges leetode problem, I was able to solve it. Then there was a low level design round where I was asked to design an OOP system to calculate the price of a pizza. There were behavioural question in all the rounds.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Bangalore Rural)
Interview
Initial Application: You submit your resume directly to the Amazon University Talent Acquisition portal.Online Assessment (OA): Shortlisted candidates complete a 90-minute online assessment. It includes one to two data structures and algorithms (DSA) coding questions, multiple-choice questions on CS fundamentals, and an assessment of your alignment with Amazon's Leadership Principles.Technical Interview: Passing the OA leads to a 1-hour virtual interview. You will write code, explain your thought process, and answer behavioral questions using the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
The process consisted of one long homework assignment as the initial screening. Once passed, I was invited to a single interview day divided into two rounds:
Round 1: Conducted by two interviewers.
Round 2: Conducted by a Senior Developer.
Both rounds followed a similar format, each including 2 behavioral/personal questions followed by 1 coding/technical question.
I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Stage 1 — Application
You apply through the Amazon Careers portal (AWS roles route through Amazon University Talent Acquisition for new grads). New grad postings tend to open in waves, with a lot of activity in fall and again in winter/spring.Stage 2 — Online Assessment (OA)
Within 1–2 weeks of applying, you'll typically get an OA link with a few days to complete it. It usually has two parts: two coding problems (often one easy + one medium, leetcode-style, focused on data structures and algorithms), followed by a work simulation / work-style assessment where you respond to email-style scenarios that probe how you'd handle real workplace situations against Amazon's Leadership Principles.Stage 3 — Phone screen (sometimes)
Some candidates report a single technical phone screen between the OA and the final loop, but many go directly from OA to the virtual onsite.Stage 4 — Virtual Onsite ("the Loop")
This is the main event: typically 2–3 back-to-back interviews, each 45–60 minutes. Each round generally follows the same pattern — roughly half behavioral, half technical: