Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
Updated Jun 3, 2026
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Interview process has 3 steps, online assessment, phone interview with recruiter and interviews with engineers.
online assessment was consist of coding test(leetcode easy or medium) and work assessment. interviews with engineers were 4 round. each interview lasted 1hour and there is technical and behavioral one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
describe your episode when you disagreed with a decision of your boss.
I am preparing the interview right now. I already passed the OA part and am preparing for the 3-round loop right now. The OA part was not easy. They had lots of requirements.
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Is there any time that you faced hardship in your life and how did you overcome those?
Received recruiter email with instructions on how to prepare for the online assessment.
OA was the standard for Amazon, two coding questions followed by work simulation (system design focused) and then behavioural.
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Question 1
Given two lists of shift durations and job durations. Calculate how many jobs would be done after each shift.
Restart if all jobs are done in the next shift.