Amazon

Size:
1500000+ employees
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Founded:
1994
About:
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Its core businesses span online retail (Amazon.com), cloud computing (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming (Prime Video), and consumer devices (Kindle, Echo, Fire TV). Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce retailer and AWS is the leading cloud infrastructure provider. The company is also a major force in logistics, advertising, and generative AI.
Amazon Interview Questions
Recently asked in real interviews
Questions
181
tracked from real interviews
Difficulty
23 Easy 141 Med 17 Hard
Rounds
5–6
OA + loop + Bar Raiser
Interview Process
1
Recruiter Screen
Background, motivation, early LP probe · ~30 min
phone
2
Online Assessment (L5 and below)
HackerRank: 2 coding problems + work simulation · ~90 min
OA
3
Technical Phone Screen
1–2 coding problems + LP-flavored behavioral · 60 min
coding
4
Onsite Loop (×4)
2 coding, 1 system/low-level design, 1 LP-heavy behavioral · 55 min each
technical
5
Bar Raiser (within the loop)
External senior interviewer with veto power — pure LP & bar check · 55 min
behavioral
Amazon weaves Leadership Principles into every round — even coding rounds include LP probes. The Bar Raiser is from outside your target team and can veto an offer regardless of how the rest of the loop goes.
Topics Covered
Leadership Principles STAR Behavioral Arrays & Hashing Strings Trees Graphs / BFS / DFS Dynamic Programming Two Pointers Sliding Window Heaps Greedy Intervals System Design Low-Level Design (OOD) Backtracking
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Compensation by Level
Level
Title
Median TC
Range
L4
SDE I
$191K
$167K – $213K
L5
SDE II
$271K
$236K – $314K
L6
SDE III / Senior
$391K
$312K – $497K
L7
Principal SDE
$627K
$490K – $806K
Source: levels.fyi median packages (base + stock + bonus). Amazon caps base salary near $200K; comp upside is heavily stock-weighted at L6+.