Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) 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.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
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Personality test: 33%
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Amazon’s interview process includes an online assessment, a technical screening (coding and problem-solving), and multiple interviews focusing on data structures, system design, and behavioral questions based on Leadership Principles. It tests both technical depth and cultural alignment.
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They asked me to solve a coding problem involving arrays and to explain my approach step by step, focusing on optimizing time and space complexity while thinking out loud.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Ámsterdam) in Mar 2025
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The first round is an online assessment consist of coding challenge, work simulation, and work style surveys. The duration of test is around 2 hours. For the coding challenge is similar to leetcode medium to hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Custom hackerrank challenge that's been adjusted to their own use case
90 minutes of coding interview, remote, all online, timed, two exercises and you can move between them, they were not typical problems you exactly find online but very very similar.
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