Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2025
Interview
After 5 months of application received interview invite and had a loop interview. First round was coding completely. Leetcode based. Second round is behavioral. Third round mix of coding and behavioral. first and second rounds went very well the interviewers were very impressed but messed up in third round in the coding part.
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Tell me about a time your work helped/impacted others? Can be a personal/academic project
I applied online. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2025
Interview
Once you’re scheduled, you get one day for a three-round loop: the first is a low-level design and behavioral round, the second is two DSA questions, and the third is a one-hour behavioral interview. It’s about four hours total 1 day not the best process, honestly just a numbers game at Amazon.
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Tell me about a time you were critiqued on your performance!
Sort nearest sorted k array. Wasn’t difficult. Then 2 nd one was house robber. Direct from let code and gfg. Practice commone qs. No issues. Just solved one of them. Couldn’t solve the other due to less time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sort nearest sorted k array. Wasn’t difficult. Then 2 nd one was house robber. Direct from let code and gfg. Practice commone qs. No issues. Just solved one of them. Couldn’t solve the other due to less time.