Amazon Software Development Engineer II interview questions
based on 293 ratings - Updated May 9, 2026
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in Mar 2015
Interview
I was contacted to participate in a hiring event in San Diego, CA by a recruiter. Then I was given a coding challenge which I partially completed but was invited to the onsite interviews held in Marriot in in La Jolla, San Diego. Typical 5 rounds, each 45 mins. One was with the Manager and the other 4 were pure technical rounds. The interview questions were average but they needed a complete and clean code on whiteboard.
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Question 1
System Design, Big O, Coding the solutions on a whiteboard
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2015
Interview
5 interviews 45 minutes each, most of them require to write the code on the board
In addition every interviewer asked about 2 amazon leadership principles, how you applied them in you past experience. It looks like they are very passion about them, available on the their website
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Question 1
1. clone graph
2. design architecture of open table
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2015
Interview
Was very challenging and a lot of fun, mostly CS stuff :) Several roationions with other developers writing code on the white board. Time and space complexity questions.