Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) 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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The Amazon SDE interview evaluates coding, data structures, system design, and behavioral skills through online assessments, technical rounds, and leadership principle questions, emphasizing problem solving clarity, scalability thinking, and consistent ownership driven decision making.
I applied online. The process took 9 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Herndon, VA) in Nov 2025
Interview
Phone screen, then OA, then webinar interview. Not expected to get all questions on OA but still fairly difficult with DS & Algorithms. I would say the best way to prep is to do the Leetcode or Neetcode list of questions and you will need to make sure you understand basics of DS&A.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2025
Interview
it was tough, Online assessment , 2 coding questions , 1 question, another behaviour round then I was headed into coding, engineering based logical reasoning round was there, Total 6 sections of one interview there was .
I carefully attended every part, in coding there was 25 test cases to be solved by us, jt was tough
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