Amazon

SWE Intern Interview Experience

January 16, 2024

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

My experience included an online assessment and then one technical interview with a SWE that lasted 30 minutes. After that, they reached out only via email. There was no recruiter contact; it was all automatic emails.

Questions

Binary Search LeetCode Problem

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 155 interview experiences for the Amazon SWE Intern role in United States.

Success Rate

22%

Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive51%

Neutral43%

Negative6%

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

Amazon Work Experiences

Learned Lots, Took Time

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

September 13, 2025

Pros: Good work, fun. Learned a lot.

Cons: It's kinda hard to get up to speed.

Learned Lots, Took Time

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

September 13, 2025

Pros: Good work, fun. Learned a lot.

Cons: It's kinda hard to get up to speed.

Easy Balance, Tough Commute

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Easy work/life balance and great teams

Cons: Commute and lack of organization

Easy Balance, Tough Commute

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Easy work/life balance and great teams

Cons: Commute and lack of organization

SDE Intern

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Pros: It was a good reputation, a learning opportunity, and prestige.

Cons: You work like a dog, lol.

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Pros: It was a good reputation, a learning opportunity, and prestige.

Cons: You work like a dog, lol.

Learned Lots, Took Time

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

September 13, 2025

Pros: Good work, fun. Learned a lot.

Cons: It's kinda hard to get up to speed.

4.0
Learned Lots, Took Time
SWE Intern • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
September 13, 2025
Pros: Good work, fun. Learned a lot.
Cons: It's kinda hard to get up to speed.

Easy Balance, Tough Commute

SWE Intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Easy work/life balance and great teams

Cons: Commute and lack of organization

5.0
Easy Balance, Tough Commute
SWE Intern • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
July 12, 2022
Pros: Easy work/life balance and great teams
Cons: Commute and lack of organization

SDE Intern

SWE Intern • Current Employee

Pros: It was a good reputation, a learning opportunity, and prestige.

Cons: You work like a dog, lol.

2.0
SDE Intern
SWE Intern • Current Employee
Seattle, WA
July 4, 2026
Pros: It was a good reputation, a learning opportunity, and prestige.
Cons: You work like a dog, lol.

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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