Amazon interviews: what they actually test

Amazon · SDE I (New Grad, MS CS)Offer

A master's new grad went through Amazon's full three-part online assessment and three 45-minute virtual interviews. Every round opened with Leadership Principles questions before the coding began, and the offer landed within five business days.

Interviewed October 2019 · Seattle, WA, US

Amazon · SDE I (New Grad)Offer

A fresher found the posting through a LinkedIn connection, cleared the OA within a week of applying, and faced a six-hour virtual onsite: four one-hour rounds where every behavioral answer drew three to four follow-up questions.

Interviewed January 2021 · Seattle, WA, US

Amazon · SDE INo offer

A LinkedIn referral bypassed Amazon's usual online assessment for this SDE I candidate, who then worked through a telephonic DSA screen and two technical rounds pairing coding problems with Amazon Leadership Principles questions before receiving no further response.

Interviewed March 2022 · Not specified

Amazon · SDE IOffer

A 2024-batch candidate with prior internship and full-time experience cleared Amazon's SDE I loop in Bangalore across an OA, two technical rounds, and a Bar Raiser, receiving an offer about a month after the process began in late November 2024.

Interviewed December 2024 · Bangalore

Amazon · SDE I (New Grad)Offer

A new-grad candidate with an MS in Computer Science walks through Amazon's SDE I hiring process: three online assessments (debugging, algorithms, work-style/logical reasoning), three same-day virtual interviews mixing leadership-principles questions with coding problems, and an offer that arrived about a week later.

Interviewed May 2022 · Seattle, WA / California / India (locations as listed in the source)

Amazon · SDE IOffer

A 2-YOE engineer's account of Amazon's SDE-1 hiring process in Hyderabad: an online assessment, two technical interviews, a hiring manager round, and a bar raiser round, ending in an offer.

Interviewed October 2020 · Hyderabad

Amazon · Applied Scientist (L4)Offer

A redirected recruiter call turned into an Amazon Applied Scientist loop with the Alexa Speech team: a phone screen, a split five-round virtual onsite across two teams, a bar raiser, and an added ML-breadth round, ending in an offer with a downlevel from L5 to L4.

Interviewed July 2021 · Boston, MA (Remote)

Amazon · Front End DeveloperNo offer

A front-end developer's phone screen with Amazon went well by the candidate's own account and the interviewer's real-time feedback, covering CSS, JavaScript closures, and two coding exercises, but ended in a rejection with no reason given despite repeated follow-up.

Interviewed 2022 · Not specified

Amazon · SDE INo offer

A candidate preparing for Amazon SDE I described a phone screen followed by a four-round onsite that mixed coding, Leadership Principles, and one system design round, and shared why they believe the loop ended in rejection.

Interviewed 2020 · Not specified