Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2025
Interview
3 levels
1-dsa 1hr (2 questions) (queues, stacks)
2- questions on (dsa 60min-2 questions) ,web development(project relqted) 30min,specializaion 15min
3-web development based (React, mernstack and then the resume based technology questions)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain your idea before approaching a question, and proving it is optimized
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2025
Interview
There was a 3 hour interview loop (each interview of 1 hour each) post the technical and behavioural assessment.
The first interview was behavioural and technical. (Conisted of 2 leadership questions followed by a system design question)
The second interview was purely technical and consisted of 2 coding questions.
The third one was purely behavioural. (Focused mainly on leadsership principles)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you took on a responsibility that was out of your comfort zone.
This was my first time appearing for AMAZON interview
The round were like this
1. pre screening round
2. work simulation round
3. coding round with system design
4. behaviour round
Everything went smooth but coding round was tuff
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Graph question
2. System design: make social media app