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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

August 1, 2024
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I experienced a tremendous amount of runaround and poor communication. The interview process was reset twice due to some kind of clerical error.

Most of the interviews were fine, but the system design interview with the hiring manager felt pretty hostile. The interviewer did not seem to have thought about the domain elements of the problem at all.

Questions

Given a 1D height map of a terrain slice, calculate the water level at each position if it were full of water.

Design a system to collect temperature data from networked sensors and push it to a weather forecasting app.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 267 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Seattle, Washington is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive54%
Neutral37%
Negative9%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Engineer interview process in Seattle, Washington.

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