Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE I) interview questions
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Get the online assessment. Two coding questions, like leetcode medium level. Also have a very long workstyle and assessment. after the OA, HR reply two weeks later. Then, get another prepare hints two weeks later.
After the online assessment, I had three back-to-back interview rounds. The first was fully behavioral, focusing on my past experiences and team collaboration. The second was an object-oriented design round, where I was asked to design a system related to video games. The final round involved solving two algorithm problems under time pressure.
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One question they asked was: “Tell me about a time you had to solve something under time pressure.”
It was part of the behavioral round, and focused on assessing how I stay calm, prioritize tasks, and still deliver quality results when working under tight deadlines—aligned with Amazon’s Leadership Principle of “Bias for Action.”
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Apr 2025
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I was rejected right after round one so I would be sharing my experience of only one round.Two technical questions were asked and no Leadership principle questions were asked. I would rate both the problems as medium level with the first one being relatively easier than the second one.
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The first question was to print all the subarrays in an array whose sum is 0, I explained the interviewer my approach and did code it.The second question was https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/police-and-thieves--141631/1.In which I fumbled in the beginning as I have not seen this before, and was able to come up with all the approaches as the interview went on.But unfortunately, I was rejected.