SWE Intern Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington
Process
This was an OA for their SDE intern position in Seattle, taken mid-December 2024.
I was given 1 hour and 15 minutes to take the assessment.
Unfortunately, I did not move on to the next stage, despite answering all questions with 100% accuracy.
Questions
This is an array-based question where you consider all ways of arranging numbers in an array and calculating a running sum. The highest running sum is what you return.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 38 interview experiences for the Amazon SWE Intern role in Seattle, Washington.
Success Rate
Amazon's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in Seattle, Washington is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's SWE Intern interview process in Seattle, Washington.
Amazon Work Experiences
- 4.0Great Pay, Limited ImpactSWE Intern • Former EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesOctober 19, 2023Pros: Name brand is good and pay is solid.Cons: Corporate environment means less impact.
- 2.0Great Teams, But Intern IgnoredSWE Intern • Former EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesJanuary 8, 2024Pros: Lots of internal tooling. Ownership culture. Brilliant teams and coworkers. Large intern class, offering more networking opportunities and events. Pay to interview effort ratio is optimal.Cons: - Sometimes your team won’t look out for your best interest as an intern. - Other times your manager will ping you at 8 p.m. (during an internship, mind you). - Lastly, Amazon hires so many interns it’s hard to stand out for Quant/Unicorns when competing the following year (this only applies if you’re not in your penultimate year).
- 3.0Flexible Time, Shifting GoalsSWE Intern • Current EmployeeSeattle, Washington, United StatesOctober 8, 2022Pros: Salary and flexibility of time to work.Cons: Load of the work. Goals keep on changing at times. Mentor not good.
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