I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Palo Alto, CA) in Oct 2016
Interview
I had on campus interviews. It was 4 back to back 45 minute interviews. Most of the interviews began the same way and was geared towards talking about my resume. Then we would discuss technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design the system requirements of your favorite IoT system
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2025
Interview
- Live coding session to design a verilog module.
- 1 Behavioral question regarding the greatest challenge at work.
- Elaboration of the work done and the things done in the story I told.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
/*
Design a module that takes a 1B input stream and converts it to a 32B output stream.
Each stream has the signals valid, rdy and data.
- Assume this is a single clock domain, reset is whatever you like
- Assume that the input valid can toggle, and can stay low for any number of cycles
- Assume that the rdy coming from the 32B side is always asserted to start
din[0] = 0xff = clk 1
din[1] = 0xfe = clk 2
...
din[31] = 0xc0 = clk 32
dout[255:0] = 0xc0 ... 0xfe, 0xff, valid_out = 1
*/
Technical quiz. Not difficult, but not very friendly either. The interviewers dodged culture questions, while hinting that anyone who doesn't want to work 60+ hour weeks, should not be applying.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the correct placement for a decoupling capacitor?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Sunnyvale, CA) in Nov 2023
Interview
Applied online, had 2 interviews with managers. The interviews were 45 min each and 15 min of that spent on leadership principles and 30 on technical questions which mainly covered fundamentals related to the position.
Hardware Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Hardware Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
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Phone interview: 25%
Background check: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Skills test: 6%
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