Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) interview questions
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Software Development Engineer (SDE) applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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3 rounds of medium-hard difficulty
Round 1 will be about dsa
Round 2 will still be about dsa + resume
Round 3 will have behavior hr core kind of questions
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Question 1
Word ladder problem
Rotten oranges
Coin exchange 2
At first, the resume screening is done. After that, OA (online assessment) is distributed. In OA, there were two parts, one is for coding tasks and the other is for OLP.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2025
Interview
Initially, they sent an online assessment. Then, once you pass it, there were 3 rounds of technical interviews & 1 behavioral interview. Two were leetcode-style coding interview and the other tech interview was low level design interview.