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Candidate-reported interview insights

Amazon Software Engineer interviews, decoded.

Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Software Engineer role at Amazon.

3.6 rating Internet & Web Services

Interview overview

Difficulty

Average

Average rounds

2.4

Average duration

40.4 day average

Difficulty and candidate experience

Interview difficulty

easy8.3%
average51.5%
difficult40.2%

Candidate experience

negative11.2%
positive57.8%
neutral31%

Candidate-reported interview process

Crazy. They were very not interested in whatever I was telling them, least bothered in my questions. Barely interested in interviewing me. So I felt off and couldn't focus. It was still one of a kind experience.

Completed OA then got interview call from HR and interview scheduled and shared via email. It was postponed at the end without notifying after 2 days. In First round, basic resume based questions were asked along with 2 medium hard DSA questions. In Second round, questions were from leadership principles and you have to answer with STAR method along with one DSA question. In third round, 2 DSA questions were asked along with one leadership principle question.

I got a call from HR, and the interview process was 1 online assessment and then 2 DSA rounds and 1 HLD round. Overall the interview was average difficulty. I did well in all the rounds but got rejected based on Amazon leadership principles as I didn’t have all the scenarios they asked questions on.

Common Amazon Software Engineer interview questions

A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.

  1. 1

    Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond to meet a customer’s needs, even when it wasn’t part of your direct responsibility.

  2. 2

    Solve a coding problem involving arrays.

  3. 3

    Can you walk me through your solution?

  4. 4

    Tell me about a time you failed.

Interview question formats

Technical32.1%
Coding30.9%
Behavioral24.2%
System Design8%
Other4.5%

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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Amazon.