Frontend Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 61% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Frontend Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 18 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Frontend Engineer according to 18 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 19%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 9%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Cincinnati, OH) in Nov 2016
Interview
Internal Amazon recruiter emailed. Phone screen with recruiter was usual... work experiences, skills, etc...
Phone technical interview was about an hour.
Told the guy that I had experiences in APIs and JavaScript. Interviewer proceeded to ask questions regarding HTTP action verbs, such as what certain status codes are, POST vs. PUT, etc...
There were also design questions and a coding challenge via an online collaboration tool.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If you have multiple users making updates to the same resource, how would you design a way to make sure the user is updating the most up to date version? For example, multiple people editing the same file document.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Jun 2026
Interview
I got OA, which i passed, Then, moved for Phone Screen, she gave me a JS question, which i solved, she asked couple of follow-ups, I answered and she was satisfied. She asked later, 2 LP. I got rejection even though Passed Technical Question, gave solid LP answers. Why???? and i sent 3 mails on different days for feedback/followups.. No replay!!!! Why? Amazon is not reputed company?? Worst ever company i saw!!!
Had an initial Hackerrank front-end based code test, followed by a live coding session with one of the devs. I was tasked with building a star rating system, using JS, HTML and CSS only (no frameworks).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazon's leadership principles and about my previous experience, followed by a live coding session.
The interview process was lengthy and tedious. There was a lot of time in between my application and the day I received the online assessment. I can't disclose the interview questions since I signed an NDA