Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 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 Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 2,542 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 Software Development Engineer according to 2,542 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Group panel interview: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Coimbatore) in Jul 2015
Interview
I applied through the college/university. The process took one day. First round was online test . It had 20 MCQ's from all domains such as C, C++, java , apti, reasoning etc., and 2 problems , one was a simple puzzle and the other was a tree problem from Data structures. Never mind the second problem, if YOU are confident with one problem and MCQ'S then you will clear the first round. The next round was a white sheet coding round which is not the usual procedure of amazon. It was quite challenging. The next two rounds are face to face technical HR . Final round is bar raiser round . All those who made till bar raiser were offered. unfortunately i didn,t make it to the last round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.)(2nd round) find the shortest distance between the two given nodes in a binary tree
2.)(tech HR) find the max sum by not choosing adjacent elements in an array with one traversal.
3.)find the min cost of a sorted sparse matrix in a most efficient way(time complexity)
4.) how to delete nth node in a linked list from the last?
5.)how to find a sub string anagram ?
6).trouble shoot the online application which connects for one user and another user cannot login..
It started with an OA, and then after a few weeks, I got invited to four rounds of interviews: technical and behavioral at 3 of the 4, and behavioral only at one.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Calgary, AB) in Jun 2026
Interview
Online Assessment is the first step in the process. I didn’t have an HR phone screening and went straight to the OA after applying. It was sent to me about a week after I submitted my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first question is LeetCode style algorithms question, and the second question gives a full stack repo (choice of Java, NodeJS, or Django) and asks to solve a backend issue which is causing a bug in the frontend. Unit tests must pass to pass the second question. You can run both backend/frontend indivdually or together