Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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Focus mainly on DSA and Low-Level Design. Prepare all DSA patterns thoroughly, along with System Design patterns. Be well-prepared for behavioral questions, especially Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles, to perform strongly.
OA with two coding problems and then was contacted a couple months later about a final 3 round interview. OA was two medium problems and 3 round interview consisted of behavioral and technical questions
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2025
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1 question about heaps, 1 generic design a parking structure. The next round was an API design. The behavioral round was quite straightforward, one question that caught me out of the blue was "Name a tool that you learnt on the job".