Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Oct 2025
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OA then 3 round loop- LLD, Leetcode with follow ups and behavioral.
LLD was like cart data and how to manipulate the cart using Design patterns
Leetcode was easy but each new test cases was increasing the difficulty
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Tell me about a time you went above and beyond working on a project?
Short term,long term
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY)
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2 Phone interview then another 4 face to face interview and finally with the team manager discussion before going to Human Resource for final discussion. First 2 were initial screening and remaining were technical.
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Most were around my experience connecting to Amazon pillars and the team management experience and architectural design discussion.
The process included an online assessment with coding and logical reasoning tasks, followed by technical interviews focused on data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving. There was also a behavioral round based on Amazon Leadership Principles.
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They asked me to solve a data structures problem involving arrays and hash maps, and to analyze the time and space complexity of my solution.