Amazon Software Development Engineer II interview questions
based on 293 ratings - Updated May 9, 2026
Averageinterview difficulty
Mostly positiveinterview experience
How others got an interview
47%
Recruiter
Recruiter
30%
Applied online
Applied online
11%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
7%
Staffing Agency
Staffing Agency
2%
Other
Other
2%
In Person
In Person
2%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
Interview search
293 interviews
Viewing 66 - 70 of 293 Interviews
Amazon interviews FAQs
Software Development Engineer II applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Smithfield, RI) in Jul 2021
Interview
It was a pretty standard and well known process where in you:
1. clear the online assessment,
2. have a phone call with recruiter about the position for an experienced candidate or technical interview for a junior candidate.
3. Get to loop interview with 4 or 5 interviews for about 4 hours
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Design an online Learning Management System for uploading and evaluating submitted files under every assignment
2. Low level logical design/code of a vehicle
3. Low level design/code of a load balancer
4. A coding question - bar raiser
They first sent me a coding challenge, then call me up for a phone interview in which they gathered some information about me and tested my English and some fundamental compsci concepts. After that we had a "on-site" interview, which was actually through Zoom because we were in a pandemic after all. The interview had for steps, each evaluating a specific technical skill for the job.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2021
Interview
Interview process was ok nothing out of the ordinary however job offer was made for completely different position than what I was interviewing for. Also, recruiter never gave straight answer on what SDE level I was interviewing for!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sorry they are under NDA but typical leetcode and system design ones