Amazon Software Development Engineer - Intern interview questions
based on 678 ratings - Updated Jun 12, 2026
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Software Development Engineer - Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2011
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Received phone interview request through recruiter. Had two back to back 45min each phone interviews. calls came on time and interviewers were nice and friendly. Went straight to technical question with only 1 personal question.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2010
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Handed my resume to Amazon recruiters at my university's recruiting event and received an invite to interview with them about 2-3 weeks later, which took place on campus. The interview itself consisted of two 45-minute 1:1 interviews and were with software developers from various Amazon teams.
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Question 1
Given a 5x5 board containing random characters, find all words that can be formed from consecutive adjacent (diagonals count) characters.