I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
Technical coding test: two questions to code, you can choose the coding language.
Design test: depends on the seniority, for junior position it's not needed
Round interviews for Leadership principals: tell stories in STAR format for a couple of Amazon leadership principals
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (New York, NY)
Interview
I applied around January 2025 and got an OA shortly after. From my memory it took around 2 hrs to complete. I got an interview loop invite around sometime in May and then in Early June I had 3 back-to-back interviews and got the offer a week later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions that tie to their leadership principles
It was okay. Took the whole day but they really communicated everything WELL. It was a design question, coding problems after coding problems then the merge sort or tree traversal question.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA)
Interview
It tested highly on system design, understanding of infrastructure, distributed systems, and data structures and algorithms. Make sure to study LeetCode and make sure you know your system design. Thanks so much.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
LeetCode question about arrays and hashing (medium - hard)
Software Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 65% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 63 days to get hired, when considering 34 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Software Development Engineer according to 34 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 28%
One on one interview: 22%
Phone interview: 21%
Personality test: 12%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 5%
Presentation: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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