Amazon Software Development Engineer II interview questions
Updated May 9, 2026
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Montreal, QC)
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It was a hiring event in montreal. I had 5 interviews in one day consisting of 2 algorithm questions, 1 question about front-end integration, 1 software design question and a leadership question.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
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5 tech interviews in the loop for different types of question including coding, behavior, and design, data structure and OO design. They focus on leadership principle.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2015
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I applied online and was prompted to take an online code challenge after a few days. I was only allowed to use their testing site to answer the coding questions and was not allowed to consult the internet for anything. The coding challenge was set at 75 minutes and allowed me to pick between a few languages to use. None of the languages had third party libraries available to make solving the problems similar to how most do while programming on the job. There were a few days between every step of the process.
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Question 1
Sort a set of linked nodes; Determine if a string has balanced brackets. Studying up on what you learned in your algorithm courses in college will really help with this interview.