Amazon Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
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Software Development Engineer SDE applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer SDE roles take an average of 10 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
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Invitation received to complete online assessment (2 questions : map implementation then BFS based solution). After this I received an invitation to schedule online interview via Chime software. Questions based on LP then coding exercice.
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Tell me about a time where you were faced with tight deadlines ?
easy unless you get an indian interviewer. very hard to please them so just give up. They expect the answer they have in mind and do not listen to any others
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Feb 2025
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The interviewer asked two behavioural questions and one coding question. The coding question can be solved by prefix sum and hash table. The BQ is generally about the 16 leadership principles.
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Question 1
How do you prioritize tasks when you have multiple deadlines approaching?