Skip to contentSkip to footer
  • Community
  • Jobs
  • Companies
  • Salaries
  • For Employers
      Notifications

      Loading...

      Elevate your career

      Discover your earning potential, land dream jobs, and share work-life insights anonymously.

      employer cover photo
      employer logo
      employer logo

      Amazon

      Engaged Employer

      About
      Reviews
      Pay & benefits
      Jobs
      Interviews
      Interviews
      Related searches: Amazon reviews | Amazon jobs | Amazon salaries | Amazon benefits | Amazon conversations
      Amazon interviewsAmazon Language Engineer interviewsAmazon interview


      Glassdoor

      • About / Press
      • Awards
      • Blog
      • Research
      • Contact Us
      • Guides

      Employers

      • Free Employer Account
      • Employer Center
      • Employers Blog

      Information

      • Help
      • Guidelines
      • Terms of Use
      • Privacy & Ad Choices
      • Do Not Sell Or Share My Information
      • Cookie Consent Tool
      • Security

      Work With Us

      • Advertisers
      • Careers
      Download the App

      • Browse by:
      • Companies
      • Jobs
      • Locations
      • Communities
      • Recent Posts

      Copyright © 2008-2026. Glassdoor LLC. "Glassdoor," "Worklife Pro," "Bowls," and logo are proprietary trademarks of Glassdoor LLC.

      Company Bowl sample

      Want the inside scoop on your own company?

      Check out your Company Bowl for anonymous work chats.

      Bowls

      Get actionable career advice tailored to you by joining more bowls.

      Followed companies

      Stay ahead in opportunities and insider tips by following your dream companies.

      Job searches

      Get personalized job recommendations and updates by starting your searches.

      Language Engineer Interview

      Apr 15, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      East Palo Alto, CA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon (East Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2021

      Interview

      I was offered a phone screen nearly a month after I submitted an application. After the phone screen about one week later I was offered a virtual onsite. The virtual onsite last for 5-6 hours. And three days later I got a phone call telling me that I don't have a offer.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Aside from the questions about the work and project experience on my resume, nearly 90% of the questions are behavioral questions. I don't remember every one of them (I was asked at least 10 behavioral questions, I guess nearly 20, throughout that 5 hour long virtual onsite), but here are some of them that I can remember: - Tell me about a time when you gave a simple solution to a complex problem. - Tell me about a time when you had to work with limited time or resources. - Tell me about a time you had too much on your plate to deal with and how you handled getting everything done. - Tell me about a time when you couldn’t meet your own expectations on a project. There was only one coding question, which is writing a simple English tokenizer in Python. Also there was some linguistic questions. One of them was given a sentence, answer the POS tag of each word, the dependency relations between words, and the syntax structure of the sentence, and also identify any semantic ambiguities. And there are some methodology questions like given a large uncleaned data set how do you evaluate the data quality; how do you keep track of the vendors annotation quality; how do you write a data annotation guideline, etc.
      1 Answer
      13

      Other Language Engineer Interview Reviews for Amazon

      Language Engineer Interview

      Jun 22, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      This was probably the worst experience of my professional life. The recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn to share the job description and requested a few details. After that, he would call me randomly throughout the day without scheduling the calls. Moving forward, they scheduled a "Meet the Team" call to help me understand the company's culture, but nobody showed up for the call. I was informed that the person they selected had meetings to attend, which felt odd. Later, I had my first interview scheduled with an engineer from the team at 10 PM (my local time) to align with their working hours. Unfortunately, the interviewer failed to show up, and after waiting for about 45 minutes, I decided to leave. I attempted to email the recruiter afterward but never heard back.

      Language Engineer Interview

      Apr 29, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      One thing I found challenging during the interview was the format of the behavioral question about exceeding expectations. I began answering using the STAR method to provide a structured and complete response, but I was frequently interrupted with follow-up questions before I could finish my thought. As a non-native English speaker, this was particularly difficult for me. When I was interrupted, I lost track of where I was in my story and struggled to refocus and pick up from where I had left off. It disrupted my train of thought and made it hard to deliver the full context and outcome of the situation I was describing. I would have felt more comfortable and confident if I had been given the space to complete my answer before follow-up questions were asked.

      Language Engineer Interview

      Feb 28, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      I had a 1 hour phone screening. First half was behavioral interview on the LPs and the second part was technical interview where I had to live code and also answer questions on NLP topics.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem.
      Answer question