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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

October 1, 2019
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Straightforward but time-consuming.

Lots of generic questions for a specialized embedded systems role. Only recently have they started focusing on more specialty questions.

They had a telephonic technical round followed by a coding assignment. I cleared both and flew to Seattle for an on-site interview.

The on-site interview went from 9 am to 4 pm with one lunch break.

Most of the interviewers were from other teams in the same org, and nobody really asked embedded-centric questions except for the Hiring Manager, who was an EE+CS graduate himself.

Questions

Standard Amazon questions are often from LeetCode. However, recently they have started asking system-level questions, such as Lamport's algorithm and schedulers.

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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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