Amazon Software Development Engineer II interview questions
Updated May 9, 2026
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Cape Town) in Mar 2025
Interview
Applied online. I got shortlisted for an SDE2 phone interview.
After being successful in the phone interviewer.I got invited to the 5hour(onsite 1hrx5 rounds) virtual day. Normally onsite but has been virtual since the pandemic
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Question 1
Phone Interview: LP questions plus leetocode style question
Onsite Loop Interviews:
Loop1: LP questions plus leetocode style question
Loop2: LP questions plus LLD question(OOP design question) - (25minutes Lps + 15 minutes OOP design question)
-Very advantageous if you use proper OOP, design patterns, solid principles and Abstraction to write the best Logical and Maintananable code)
Loop3: LP questions plus System design question(HLD round) -(Lps 25 minutes + 30 minutes System design on the bluescape platform)
Loop4: LP questions plus leetocode style question (Lps 30 minutes + DSA theory 5minutes + coding part 20 minutes)
Loop5: Baraiser round (LPs only for 55 minutes plus 5 minutes for me to ask questions at the end)
1 online test =>
2 coding and some system design/behaviour questions
4 rounds for on site =>
1 leetcode medium, 1 leetcode hard, 1 system design, 1 object oriented
Each round has 2-3 behaviour questions
There's a very rude interviewer who's too busy with other stuff. Just asked me to finish the question when I asked questions to clarify what he wanted. Totally disrespectful. Dodged a bullet I guess.
Good interview practice though.
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Question 1
dealing with difficult customer, unanticiapted obstacle
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Oct 2024
Interview
A 4-hour virtual interview split into 1-hour sessions.
Each session had technical and cultural fit questions. Out of the 4, one of them was on system design.
The other 3 were Algorithms and data structures(Trees), Problem-solving, and writing logical and maintainable code.
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Question 1
Design a system that processes, compiles, and sends out phone bills to customers at the end of every month.