SDE 1 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 64% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SDE 1 roles take an average of 38 days to get hired, when considering 107 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 SDE 1 according to 107 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 22%
Phone interview: 17%
Skills test: 16%
Presentation: 14%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Group panel interview: 5%
Background check: 5%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Sat home) in May 2021
Interview
I got the interview opportunity at Amazon for SDE-1 recently. There were total 3 rounds on the same day back to back. 2 of them were coding rounds and 1 was of CS fundamentals and Project based discussion round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I should not reveal the particular questions but they ask normal DS Also questions every companies ask. Topics could be DP, Trees, Graphs, etc. Nothing fancy though that u wouldn't have seen before.
First 2 round had 2 questions each. And it can go on for an hour at most.
Third round was with the Manager.
I was asked detailed conceptual questions around Multithreading, Inheritance, Memory management etc.
He seemed to be very smart as he was going into depth of each question.
In all three rounds, i was also asked couple of LP questions like
Tell me about something u innovated
Tell me about something u recently debugged
Tell me about the issue that u fixed on production
Remember not to lie in LP questions, because they can verify things on internet and counter question you. It happened in my case, not that i lied but he wanted to verify whatever i was saying.
Online assessment - 2 parts
1 coding question - 45 minutes
1 repository question where you have to fix a bug in the project - 1 hour.
The coding question was very long and tries to replicate a real life scenario that happens while working for amazon, the amount of details is kind of what makes it difficult.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve the coding problem in the required time and submit it.
Find the bugs and fix them in the projects.
Got reached out after 1 month after completing the OA for In person interview. The whole process was smooth and everyone I met was professional and friendly. 4 rounds of interviews with a lunch break in between. 1 round is purely behavioral, other 3 is part behavioral part technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral focused on LP questions and they dig deep into details. Technical were easy-medium leetcode/OOD questions
Applied online -> received OA after around 2 months -> final loop consist of 4 interviews after a month. Each interview was around 1 hour with a mix of leetcode style questions and behavioural questions