Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer SDE interview questions
Updated May 8, 2026
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They gave me one round of behavioral and technical interviews. After which, I was told to wait to hear back from them. Once I heard back I got the offer.
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Question 1
How would you build a program to verify if a string is a valid word?
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (East Palo Alto, CA)
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Round one- 3.5 hours coding assessment
Round two- 3 rounds: 1 hour each. Coding and Leadership Principles. 1 short break in between.
You get an offer in a few days and get 1 week's time to respond to that offer.
I completed the Online Assessment, and approximately 20 days later, I received an invitation for the first technical round. This round focused exclusively on Data Structures and Algorithms, featuring two questions: one pertaining to prefix sums and the other involving an advanced binary search.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
two questions: one pertaining to prefix sums and the other involving an advanced binary search.