Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) I interview questions
Updated Jun 9, 2026
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) I applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Debugging code to find issues with the code for 5 different coding sets to find bugs, 2 coding problems to solve (can't give details about it due to NDA) and amazon culture fit questionnaire
online assessment consisting of 2 coding problems and two follow-up questions for each coding question, the first asks you to describe your approach and the second asks you to compute time complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. compute the points closest to origin.
2. basic bfs on a graph
4 rounds, questions were standard leetcode type problems. With one system design. 1 interviewer was obnoxious and spent interview showing off their proficiency in c++ and had difficulty understanding another interviewer.
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Question 1
design a system that will publish image topics only when both left and right camera have received images and the latency is withing a given bounds?