Amazon Software Development Engineer, II interview questions
based on 292 ratings - Updated May 9, 2026
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Software Development Engineer, II applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 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 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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Phone Interview with a technical manager over the phone. Some questions about experiences and writing a tree algorithm on a virtual white board. The manager was very friendly and helpful.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2014
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Hiring process was very organized. Recruiter arranged all the schedule and was very flexible. Process started at 9am and ended at about 4pm. There were about 5 rounds in one day. First one was based on my resume, second on javascript, third on problem solving question, fourth on OOPs concept, fifth on HR type questions.
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A Oops concept question, some javascript question, no questions on sql.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2012
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Interviewer was not very friendly, sounded like he wasn't interested in interviewing, and was fishing for cookie cutter answers to cookie cutter questions. One question involved a non-standard data structure that the interviewer refused to define for me but wanted to ask questions about. I was going off of general programming experience and college CS, but it seems like that isn't enough and you need to read all of those "100 CS interview secrets!" books cover to cover so you have the same question bank as them. If accepted, I wouldn't have joined, because the interview was indicative of a workplace where requirements are not properly defined and you're just supposed to dream up what is expected of you among uncooperative peers. I ended up interviewing for and accepting a level 3 position at a company of equal reputation a month after this.
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