Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE I interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2020
Interview
Completed a three-part OA in about 2 weeks. Each session was about 60-90 minutes long. Received results usually the day of each session. After the last OA session, I waited about 2 weeks until I was notified about the final round scheduling.
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Question 1
One of the coding questions was a variation of Num-Islands—given a grid of chars [a-z], find number of islands
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Nov 2019
Interview
Was reached out to by a recruited. This lead to a phone screen about my experience and skills. This lead to a live online coding interview with an engineer with an algorithm question. This lead to a on-site interview with multiple parts.
Overall, all of the individuals I spoke with were nice and friendly people.
online assessment 1 median and 1 hard question
3 round of video onsite include algorithm, graph, and behavior questions. The questions are ranged from median to hard questions. The process is good