Question 1

What is the Amazon interview process?

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The Amazon interview process is known to be quite long and rigorous, but also highly structured. The process typically takes 2 to 6 weeks, though it can extend for senior or specialized roles.

Here are the steps you can expect to take when applying for a role at Amazon:

Resume screen. Your resume is reviewed to assess whether you’ve got the right skills and experience for the role and alignment with company culture. To increase your chances of moving forward, create a resume that highlights your impact in previous roles and matches Amazon’s Leadership Principles.
Recruiter call. If you pass the resume screen, a recruiter will contact you to discuss your background, motivations, and the role. Expect questions about your experience and how you demonstrate Amazon's values. This is also your chance to ask questions about the process.
Online assessments. Depending on the role, you may receive one or more assessments. These can include work-style questionnaires, situational judgment tests, and technical coding challenges. Be sure to complete them promptly and accurately to get to the next step.
Phone screens. These are 30- to 60-minute interviews with hiring managers or team members. You'll face technical and behavioral questions. Engineering roles may include live coding via tools like CoderPad.
Interview loop. If you manage to clear the phone screens, you’ll be scheduled for the final interview loop. This consists of 4 to 6 back-to-back interviews covering role-related knowledge and behavioral topics. Leadership Principles are central in every conversation. The whole interview loop will be guided by the Amazon Bar Raiser. “The Bar Raiser is someone outside the hiring team trained to make sure Amazon only hires candidates who raise the overall talent bar.” Coach Anurag, ex-Amazon software engineering lead.
Interview debrief and hiring committee. After your loop, interviewers will meet to evaluate your performance in a debrief presided over by the Bar Raiser.
Offer and negotiation. If successful, you'll receive a formal offer. Be sure to negotiate your salary, sign-on bonuses, and equity. Background checks and other pre-employment steps follow.

Familiarizing yourself with the entire interview process will go a long way in helping you prepare. Consider doing a deep-dive with comprehensive resources, starting with our Amazon interview process guide and other prep guides relevant to your role. Brush up on your role-related knowledge, get to know Amazon as a company, and learn its Leadership Principles inside out.

Once you've prepped on your own, be sure to practice your interviewing skills. Start by practicing with friends and peers. And then, book a coaching session with our Amazon interview coaches to simulate a realistic interview environment and get expert, actionable feedback.

Question 2

What does {{page.company.name|,add_article}} interview coach do?

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{{page.company.name|,add_article,capitalize}} interview coach helps you practice real interviews so you can think on your feet—something you just can’t simulate alone or with a bot. They give expert feedback that friends or peers usually can’t, help you build confidence, and focus your prep on what really matters. The right coach will also bring company-specific insights and help you pick the best stories to tell in your behavioral interviews.

Here's a more detailed look at what {{page.company.name|,add_article}} interview coach can do for you:

Give you expert feedback. After conducting a mock interview with you, your coach will zoom in on your weaker areas and give you highly actionable, specific feedback that you can take away and use to improve your performance.
Help you prepare more efficiently. An interview coach can help you save weeks of unnecessary prep time by creating a study plan that cuts through the noise and helps you focus on the most important areas.
Increase your confidence. Studies have shown that around 93% of people feel nervous before a job interview. Unless you’re one of the 7% with ice in their veins, you’ll need to find a way to deal with nerves, remain calm, and project confidence. The more you practice something, the less stressful it should become, so mock interviews with a coach can really help reduce anxiety.
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Help you tell the right stories. Your coach will tell you what interviewers really want to hear about, and will show you how to tell the most impactful stories.
Gauge whether you’re ready. Some candidates like to use interview coaching to test their readiness levels. They then adapt their interview preparation accordingly.
Help you structure your answers. Almost any answer you give in an interview should have a structure. For example, most people use the STAR method for answering behavioral questions (though we believe that the SPSIL method is better). An interview coach can show you the relevant answer frameworks that are relevant to your interviews.

Question 3

How will my {{page.company.name}} interview coaching session work?

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In a 1h mock interview session, you’ll spend 45 minutes being interviewed by your coach, and they will give you feedback on your performance for 15 minutes. They will identify your weak points, give insightful, actionable advice on how to improve, and give you more confidence going into your real interviews.

In a general preparation session, you can use your coach to help you structure your preparation, answer any questions you might have about your upcoming interview, and make more efficient use of your study time.

Question 4

How is practicing with {{page.company.name|,add_article}} interview coach different to doing mocks with a friend or peer?

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Practicing with {{page.company.name|,add_article}} interview coach is a totally different experience from doing mocks with a friend or peer.

Our {{page.company.name}} coaches have all conducted interviews at the company, so they know exactly what its interviewers are looking for and can give you insights specific to {{page.company.name}} interviews. They won’t just say “that sounded good”, they’ll tell you why something worked or didn’t, and how to make your answers tighter, clearer, and more impactful.

Friends or peers might be smart, but they’re not calibrated. A coach will push you on the right things, help you cut fluff, and give you a realistic sense of how you'd perform in a real interview. Plus, they can help you build a plan, identify gaps in your prep, and even flag blind spots you didn’t know you had.

Question 5

What's the acceptance rate for {{page.company.name}} interviews?

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There aren’t any official stats on {{page.company.name}}’s interview acceptance rate. Companies like {{page.company.name}} don’t tend to publish that kind of data, while the blog articles you'll find on this topic usually use junk statistics.

With that in mind, based on what employees and candidates share on forums like Reddit and Blind, and knowing how many applications these companies receive compared to how many roles they actually fill, we guess that the overall pass rate from application to offer is probably around 2% or less.

Even at the interview stage, we're probably still talking about less than 10% of candidates making it through to an offer.

That doesn’t mean you personally have <10% shot of passing your interviews. Some candidates will be underprepared, some will lack key skills. If you meet the requirements and prepare well, it's still super competitive but you've got a real chance.

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