Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2025
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Loop interview of 3 rounds. There will be atleast 3 programming questions on average. They are mostly asked from Leetcode Amazon recent questions. And then there will be behavioural questions where they will be assessing you cultural fit.
I applied online. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2025
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I have given loop, first round was completely technical where i was asked questions on DSA, and then 2 leetcode medium level problems and later worked on scaling them more
second round was a LP and coding mix round had 2 behaviour questions and system design on pizza toppings
3rd round was a full LP round where interviewer grilled me for 55mins non stop asking multiple followups about how and why did even had a sec gap it was like a rapid fire round for 55mins
I felt i did well through out the interview but ended but not getting the offer
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Asked me to code meeting schedule problem after i have done coding asked me on how i can scale it to integrate it with the internal amazon system
Nur die erste Runde des Online Assessments mitgemacht. Es wurden 2 Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen Fragen zu Dynamic Programming gestellt. Beide vergleichbar mit Leedcode medium Fragen.
Danach gab es noch eine Systems Design Runde mit Multiple Choice Fragen und abschließend eine Behavioural Runde.
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Da es sich um ein Online Assessment handelte, waren natürlich die Coding Fragen sehr wichtig. Außerdem sollte man noch den eigenen Impact in gewissen Situationen beschreiben können in dem Behavioural Teil.