Software Development Engineer I applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.9% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer I roles take an average of 50 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer I according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 31%
Phone interview: 31%
Drug test: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
Skills test: 8%
Presentation: 8%
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I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2015
Interview
Onsite is begin from 9: 45 AM to 5:00 OM. The whole process is pretty smooth, but really exhausted. 5 interview section in total. At noon, I have a launch with a engineer.
The interview question is quite difficult in the 3rd section, its a principal engineer. I think he is the bar razor.
Anyway, quite a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
give you a 2d charater array and a words dictionary, find out all the available words in grid. You can move to 8 different direction from one cell, including diagonal direction.
Implement a Black-jack poker game.
give you some modular dependencies, find out the build order for the given module.
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 (São Paulo, ) in Jun 2026
Interview
Empresa extremamente clara sobre o que é pedido na entrevista e isso me mostra a seriedade. Minha experiencia foi positiva e tente se atentar a resolver o problema e não somente decorar padrões do leetcode.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Perguntas em ingles que envolve o STAR e testes técnicos
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