Amazon System Development Engineer interview questions
Updated May 21, 2026
based on 59 ratings
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Mostly positive
How others got an interview
44%
Applied online
Applied online
36%
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System Development Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for System Development Engineer roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a System Development Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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1 phone screen and then 4 hours long technical + behavioral interview.
Asked 2 coding questions - leetcode.
Every interview had around 20 mins behavioral questions - leadership principles.
Study trees graphs, data structures, oop concepts, networking, operating systems, do as much leetcode as possible. And solve system design questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
2 coding questions
Behavioral questions based on leadership principles.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2020
Interview
Interview process went fairly quick. I applied online and heard back from a recruiter within a week. I had completed two phone screens, with a coding session on each. Then I had the full day “on-site” virtual interview due to COVID-19. I felt that the process went extremely well, but was told that the “bar raiser” said no to the hire and I was not given an offer. I prepared more for these interviews than anything else I have done before.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderabad) in Sep 2020
Interview
First phone interview, followed by 4 virtual interview with 4 team members and interview mode was virtual.
More questions on Linux and on Amazon LP's
Focus on Linux Internals a lot and on Networking topics
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Linux Internals
Inode
OOM Killer
what happens when you type amazon in a browser
Diskspace cleanup
most complex problem which you have solved
switch vs hub
switch vs router
different IP class
MAC and IP
troubleshooting
DNS
DHCP, with DORA process
Public and Private gateway
NAT
when you have bypassed your manager in taking business decision
what is your reaction to the most urgent problem
Difference between TCP and UDP
SSL i.e http vs https
http to https routing
fstab
swap space
find common elements in given two arrays
find the numbers where the digits of a number is odd from given 1000 to 3000
where the delivery of the product did not happened properly and the action item taken by you