Amazon Software Development Engineer I Intern interview questions

2 rounds, both half behavioral have technical, with leetcode medium to hard questions. The behaviorals were just general STAR type behavioral questions with emphasis on leadership principles. Overall not bad, but significantly more difficult than last year.

The process for interns is similar to what you get for full time roles. You first get sent an Online Assessment containing leetcode-like questions that you need to solve. Then if you get a good enough score, a recruiter might get in touch with you to schedule your interviews. When I did them (2025) it was just one for interns, I believe that now are two. The interview is 60 minutes long and is split into parts, one where you need to solve leetcode-like questions (medium difficulty) and the other where you need to answer leadership principles questions, which may look like "tell me about a time where you had a disagreement in a project". Here it is useful to structure answers using the STAR method