Amazon Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer I (SDE I) 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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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2024
Interview
45-60 minute interview, with a technical and behavioral component. Behavioral questions were based on the leadership principles, technical question was a easy-medium difficulty leetcode question (Graphs). Overall not particularly difficult.
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Describe a time where you had to make a sacrifice.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2025
Interview
I completed the online assessment and got an interview. It was a technical screening interview before the loop. It was an hour long interview with a couple of leadership principle questions and one coding question (medium).
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The leadership principle question was related to delivering results leadership principle. It was about a time I came up with creative and out of the box solution to a problem.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The technical round was great, it was just 2 leetcode mediums. The LLD round included 2 questions about leadership principles and a very vague OOP problem description. The behavioral round was around 5 LPs (interviewer was rude and judgmental).
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Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond.