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Work quality
4.5
Based on 2 reviews
Work difficulty
4.5
Average difficulty rating
Interview quality
4.7
Average interview quality
Interview difficulty
3.0
Average interview difficulty
Return offer:
100 %
of respondents received a return offer
Quality
4.0
Difficulty
4.0

Software Development Engineer Intern

Vancouver, British Columbia

Pay: $8000 CAD / mo Return offer: Yes Duration: Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Amazon was salaried monthly, so the internship offer worked out to around $8,000 CAD/month, plus a $2,000 USD/month relocation stipend. At the time, the role was 3 days in the office. I was moved to a different team during the internship, probably because of a larger reorg, and teams are assigned based on business needs. I got a return offer about 3 weeks after finishing the internship, with around $114k base, a $43k/$34k bonus, and $111k in stock over 4 years.

Quality
5.0
Difficulty
5.0

Software Development Engineer Intern

Vancouver, British Columbia

Pay: $8000 CAD / mo

Honestly, pretty solid internship. Got to learn a ton about cloud stuff and AWS, but the workload was kinda intense and onboarding was pretty rushed. Overall, good place to level up technically.

Quality
5.0
Difficulty
2.0

Software Engineer Intern

Seattle, Washington

Status: Offer Received

Overall, I really enjoyed the interview process at Amazon. The pair programming round was pretty relaxed, and the engineer I interviewed with was helpful and made it feel more like working through a problem together than being tested. The life story round was also surprisingly enjoyable. I ended up declining the offer since I received a higher paying US offer, but I’d definitely consider interviewing with Amazon again in the future

Quality
4.0
Difficulty
4.0

Software Development Engineer Intern

Vancouver, British Columbia

Status: Offer Received

In my OA, I had a behavioral/personality questionnaire along with two technical questions, both of which were greedy algorithm problems at an easy–medium difficulty. In my final interview, I was asked about a technical project I had worked on, with questions tied to Deliver Results, Insist on the Highest Standards, Dive Deep, and Learn and Be Curious. For the technical portion, I got a medium-level graph problem on detecting a cycle in a directed graph, followed by questions about time and space complexity and a follow-up asking how I would detect a cycle in a bidirectional graph.

Quality
5.0
Difficulty
3.0

Software Development Engineer Intern

Vancouver, British Columbia

Status: Offer Received

I had 1 HackerRank OA with 2 questions (1 Easy, 1 Medium), followed by a single 1-hour interview combining behavioral and technical questions. I was asked, “Tell me about a time where you had to make a quick decision with little data.” The technical question involved preprocessing an array and using a heap to add and pop elements.