Amazon Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) interview questions
Updated Jun 2, 2026
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On computer the entire time... very very weird non traditional interview. No eye contact etc. I’m just here so I don’t get fined. Fined fined fined fined fined fined fined
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
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I applied through referral at Amazon, Bangalore. I have overall 1.5 years of experience. Overall the process took 2 months . Most of the questions were on Data structures, Amazon leadership principles, test cases , automation framework, and behavioral questions . Explain any of your projects in detail. All the best .
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Question 1
First Round
Introduction
1) Stepping Numbers
2) Define test strategy and test plan
3) Design test cases for desktop cloud application
Second round
1) More questions on my project as I worked on automation framework development for few months. In depth questions were asked as I explained one of my projects in detail.
2) Design test cases and automation framework for postpaid customers.
3) Amazon Leadership questions.
Third round
1) More questions on my projects(In depth).
2) Define test cases for product recommendation on amazon checkout page
3) Find the elements in a sorted row wise and column wise matrix.
Fourth Round
1) Introduction
2) Count the number of islands
3) Max Increasing path in matrix.
4) Leadership principle questions
Fifth round
1) Introduction and questions on my project
2) Similar to trapping rain water problem
3) Evaluate the expression
4) Amazon Leadership principle questions
Time complexity and optimization were asked for all the above problems.
online test/ interview round 2/ HR round
1stt round online test
clone a linked list + merge sort linked list + is binary tree a subtree
shortlist on basis of test + mostly on resume
2nd face to face approach on some question
3 rd HR round