I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (Mountain View, CA) in Jul 2017
Interview
I applied online. The interview process took 4 weeks. The recruiters were very prompt. They gave me feedback in 5 days after phone interview, and an oral offer in 5 days after onsite interview. Onsite interview consists of 5 technical rounds, with your hiring manager and team colleagues.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Behavior question about Amazon's Leadership principles. Every interviewer will ask you a question about one of their principles and how you applied it in your previous working experience.
2 rounds , each round has 1 medium leetcode question and few behavioral questions for around 30 minutes which sums up to 1 hour total interview. They also asked few follow ups for the behavioral questions and for the medium leetcode questions you have suggest optimal approach if possible
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazon style behavioral questions that are available online
applied online, after a while got hr screening with background, availability and everything. Then followed by phone tech interview with team member/ tech lead, online coding question and java concept etc...
Meeting with manager + a coding interview then passed to the on-site round which consists of 4 interviews which involves coding, system design and leadership principles questions. They gave a call about the final decision whether it’s positive or not
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were many behavioural questions on all the interviews
A coding questions related to moving object in a grid, there was also one related to operation on big numbers
Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Lab126 with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 36% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 17 days to get hired, when considering 24 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Lab126 overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Lab126 as a Software Engineer according to 24 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 49%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 11%
Group panel interview: 6%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Background check: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Skills test: 3%
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