Company profile
Amazon
Amazon runs the world's largest e-commerce marketplace and AWS, the dominant public cloud, plus Alexa, Prime Video, and a fast-growing ads business. Every Amazon interview is built around the 16 Leadership Principles, with a dedicated Bar Raiser participating in the loop to keep the hiring bar consistent.
The Amazon interview process
Every Amazon loop is built around the 16 Leadership Principles. Behavioral questions dominate even the technical rounds, and you should expect to answer them with specific STAR stories. A trained Bar Raiser from outside the hiring team joins the loop with veto power to keep the bar consistent across the company.
- 1
Online assessment
Two coding problems plus a work-style and debugging section.
- 2
Phone screen
One coding problem and two or three Leadership Principle stories.
- 3
Onsite coding
Data structures and algorithms, with LP follow-ups woven in.
- 4
System design
Designing for scale, with explicit cost and operational tradeoffs.
- 5
Bar Raiser
Deep behavioral dive led by a calibrated interviewer outside the team.
What Amazon is looking for
What they value
- STAR stories heavy on 'I' with quantified results
- Two or three distinct examples ready per principle
- Frugal, pragmatic designs over gold-plated ones
Culture signals in the loop
- Customer Obsession as the starting point for most answers
- Ownership: you carried it, not your team in the abstract
- Dive Deep with real metrics rather than rounded summaries
Questions and process by role
Amazon hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- ML engineer
ML engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
engineering - AI engineer
AI engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
ai - AI infrastructure engineer
AI infrastructure engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
ai - AI red team engineer
AI red team engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
ai - AI research engineer
AI research engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
research - MLOps engineer
MLOps engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
ai - Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
engineering - DevOps engineer
DevOps engineer interview questions and process at Amazon.
infrastructure
Practice Amazon coding problems
Solve the 10 problems that commonly appear in Amazon coding interviews in a real in-browser editor, and run your solution against the test cases. JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C, and C++. Free, no sign-up.
Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Amazon's core roles, anchored to Seattle and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Amazon offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Amazon holds a 3.7 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 3.7