Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
Updated Jun 1, 2026
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I applied in-person. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2020
Interview
Total five rounds were there.1 technical round online coding platform.
Questions on trees,linked List and dynamic programming.
average level difficulty.Asked some Questions about normal forms and some operating
system questions.Final round was HR round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The most difficult question was a list of all possible palindromes in a very large string.
The company came into my college in August. First they gave a coding question round with 3 coding questions. Then there were 4 technical rounds of interview. Every round had 2-3 coding questions.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2020
Interview
virtual onsite
first intro and bq question. Not hard just talk about the challenge you meet.
one medium coding problem and gives 30 mins to solve it.
Then ask how to optimize and its complexity.
system design
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
given several courses and some of them are prerequisites. return true or false if you can eroll a given course.
basic knowledge of data struture