Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) I interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) I applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 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 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Neu-Delhi) in Jan 2018
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Each interview session usually lasts from 45 minutes to an hour. Lunch: We will provide lunch if your interview is scheduled during the lunch hour. Let recruiting or your lunch buddy know if you have any dietary preferences.
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Why Amazon?
Which leadership principle of Amazon's do you connect with most?
Do you know who the Amazon CEO is? ...
Tell me about a time you faced a crisis at work. ...
Describe [Amazon product or service relevant to the role] as you would to a prospective customer.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
It was a great interview and amazon always raises the bar in terms of their interviews while progressing forward. To simply put it, one should always keep trying for amazon over the time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It was a great interview and amazon always raises the bar in terms of their interviews while progressing forward. To simply put it, one should always keep trying for amazon over the time.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
Interview
First round was purely Data structures and Algorithms based. The next one was both data structures and project based. Was asked 2 coding questions in each round. the final round had tricky coding questions. I got to learn a lot from.the Interview experience.
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Project based questions, what data structures did I use. Data structures and algorithms. All questions were of good level.