Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
Updated Jun 3, 2026
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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.
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home assessment that include 2 technical questions and personality part of the way you react to work related conflicts, including clashes between teams or between your opinion and team lead opinion etc. I think they mostly tried to test your character and problem solving capabilities.
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Question 1
describe a situation where you had several options and needed to pick one.
Interview was good with right questions along with right amount of complexity and mainly was related to algorithms coding questions with any languages preference to decide.if yo have good amount of knowledge in Algorithm and complexity, then it will definitely help you in interview
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They'll ask design and algorithm related questions, and if you know complexity concept, that would be great
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2024
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Online Assessment and one should be well prepared for behavioural and coding test during phone interview. After that interview loop happens. It is four rounds of technical and behavioural questions.