Software Engineer 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 42% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 29%
Phone interview: 21%
Personality test: 14%
One on one interview: 14%
IQ intelligence test: 7%
Group panel interview: 7%
Presentation: 7%
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I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Madrid) in Jun 2025
Interview
6 Interviews. Including 4x1 hour back-to-back. 15min questions about my past experiences to match with their leadership principles. Rest of the time livecoding on a notepad style "IDE". No autocorrect, no nothing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were somewhat premade boring questions about past experiences, so they can match you to their leadership principles.
If they are not satisfied with your answer, they ask a follow-up question.
That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round.
The interviews were 50 mins each.
First round with hr screening - 2 leetcode questions then hr manager screening then the loop which consists of 4 interviews each an hour long. The 4 interview questions they asked where three medium leetcode questions. And one system design interview question about how to shadow deploy a test software to millions of users.