Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Toronto, ON) in Feb 2021
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3 step initial assessment. Step 1 was debugging, step 2 was coding and step 3 was a virtual assessment where we made decisions based on certain actions. If the initial assessment is successfully passed, then there is a final interview with 3 software engineers.
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Question 1
Describe a time when you were a deadline was very close and you had limited information.
1 hour interview, 20 minutes data structure questions and resume questions, mostly data structure implmentations and 2 coding problem, the coding problem was relatively easy, one of which is that gives you a input list of stock prices and asks to select the buy and sell point to maximize profit