Amazon Software Development Engineer interview questions
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It had 3 rounds of interviews, one behavioral round where they asked 4 LPs, one coding round where they asked 2 LC Mediums, and one system design round where I was asked to design a pricing system for a restaurant.
Leetcode style questions - You are given an image represented by an m x n grid of integers image, where image[i][j] represents the pixel value of the image. You are also given three integers sr, sc, and color. Your task is to perform a flood fill on the image starting from the pixel image[sr][sc].
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2025
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I applied on the Amazon careers website without referrals. The interview process consists of 1 OA round and 1 final virtual round with 3 back-to-back interviews. I hear back from them after 2 business days. I passed the interviews but was put on the waitlist for future SDE roles
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