Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
based on 3.4K ratings - Updated Jul 1, 2026
Averageinterview difficulty
Very positiveinterview experience
How others got an interview
48%
Applied online
Applied online
20%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
18%
Recruiter
Recruiter
11%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
1%
Other
Other
1%
In Person
In Person
1%
Staffing Agency
Staffing Agency
Interview search
3,378 interviews
Viewing 871 - 875 of 3,378 Interviews
Amazon interviews FAQs
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Applied through online. first phase has assessment with 2 tasks with 90 minutes duration. Need to attempt both tasks. Assessment on General Collections and Data Structures topics. Second phase is 40 mins skype interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked to implement a stack collection through their IDE.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2020
Interview
I was contacted by recruiter on LinkedIn, scheduled for OA test. I cleared the Online Assessment test within 90 minutes plus some behavior questions and go on the phone screen with recruiter
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2020
Interview
Initial Screening:
Call with the SDE engineer from the team that I was interviewing for. Behavioral question (15-20 mins) + Algorithmic question based on Binary trees. (Path between two nodes)
Virtual On-screen Interview:
Round 1(Bar Raiser): In-depth behavioral questions (25-30 mins). String manipulation question to incorporate discount calculations.
Round 2: 50 mins coding question (To create a library/ package to implement functionality similar to couple of Linux commands ) + 10mins behavioral questions
Round 3: 20mins behavioral + 40 mins Singly Linked List manipulation based on their positions.
Round 4: 15mins Behavioral + 45 mins object-oriented design based question for a library system
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Algorithmic question based on Binary trees. (Path between two nodes)