Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
based on 3.4K ratings - Updated Jun 24, 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
3,377 interviews
Viewing 2796 - 2800 of 3,377 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:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter. I had 3 phone interviews and I was asked basic programming questions.
Few questions I can recall,
1. Implement your own hashmap in java
2. Given an integer array, find all pairs of integers which sums up to K.
3. Difference between arraylist and vector
4. How would you implement your own ArrayList
5. Questions regarding knowledge of design patterns
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2014
Interview
Applied through campus career fair. Got an invitation for Online assessment. After clearing the assessment got call for onsite interview. 4 rounds of 45 mins each