Amazon

SWE Intern Interview Experience - Canada

January 18, 2023

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Completed a 2-stage online assessment with timed data structures and algorithm questions, followed by a virtual interview with one junior developer. They asked behavioral questions and one LeetCode-style interview question.

Questions

Data structures and algorithms style

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 10 interview experiences for the Amazon SWE Intern role in Canada.

Success Rate

10%

Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral30%

Negative20%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's SWE Intern interview process in Canada.

Amazon Work Experiences

A good place to work

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: A great company with great products to work on. You will not get bored.

Cons: You have to deliver. If you do not deliver, you are out.

A good place to work

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: A great company with great products to work on. You will not get bored.

Cons: You have to deliver. If you do not deliver, you are out.

Great Learning, Rigid Switching

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: I learned a lot about SWE as an intern.

Cons: It's very hard to change where you are in the company for full-time. You need to work in your current team for at least a year to even be eligible to switch to another team if you don't like your current team.

Great Learning, Rigid Switching

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: I learned a lot about SWE as an intern.

Cons: It's very hard to change where you are in the company for full-time. You need to work in your current team for at least a year to even be eligible to switch to another team if you don't like your current team.

Great Fundamentals, Superb Coworkers

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Excellent name, superb coworkers, really nice exit opportunities.

Cons: Not really any, to be honest. No perks compared to others, but you can't really beat the fundamentals you will develop.

Great Fundamentals, Superb Coworkers

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Excellent name, superb coworkers, really nice exit opportunities.

Cons: Not really any, to be honest. No perks compared to others, but you can't really beat the fundamentals you will develop.

A good place to work

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: A great company with great products to work on. You will not get bored.

Cons: You have to deliver. If you do not deliver, you are out.

5.0
A good place to work
SWE Intern • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
May 15, 2023
Pros: A great company with great products to work on. You will not get bored.
Cons: You have to deliver. If you do not deliver, you are out.

Great Learning, Rigid Switching

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pros: I learned a lot about SWE as an intern.

Cons: It's very hard to change where you are in the company for full-time. You need to work in your current team for at least a year to even be eligible to switch to another team if you don't like your current team.

5.0
Great Learning, Rigid Switching
SWE Intern • Former Employee
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
March 12, 2023
Pros: I learned a lot about SWE as an intern.
Cons: It's very hard to change where you are in the company for full-time. You need to work in your current team for at least a year to even be eligible to switch to another team if you don't like your current team.

Great Fundamentals, Superb Coworkers

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Pros: Excellent name, superb coworkers, really nice exit opportunities.

Cons: Not really any, to be honest. No perks compared to others, but you can't really beat the fundamentals you will develop.

5.0
Great Fundamentals, Superb Coworkers
SWE Intern • Former Employee
March 22, 2022
Pros: Excellent name, superb coworkers, really nice exit opportunities.
Cons: Not really any, to be honest. No perks compared to others, but you can't really beat the fundamentals you will develop.

Amazon Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

You're given daily stock prices. Find the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock once. You must buy before you sell.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Reorganize String

Rearrange the characters in a given string such that no two adjacent characters are the same. If such an arrangement is possible, return it; otherwise, return an empty string.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

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