Amazon Software Development Engineer, II interview questions
based on 292 ratings - Updated May 9, 2026
Averageinterview difficulty
Mostly positiveinterview experience
How others got an interview
46%
Recruiter
Recruiter
30%
Applied online
Applied online
11%
Employee Referral
Employee Referral
7%
Staffing Agency
Staffing Agency
2%
Other
Other
2%
In Person
In Person
2%
Campus Recruiting
Campus Recruiting
Interview search
292 interviews
Viewing 186 - 190 of 292 Interviews
Amazon interviews FAQs
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.
Candidates applying for Software Development Engineer, II roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 33 days.
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
5 tech interviews in the loop for different types of question including coding, behavior, and design, data structure and OO design. They focus on leadership principle.
Interview has a bar raiser who is very important
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2015
Interview
I applied online and was prompted to take an online code challenge after a few days. I was only allowed to use their testing site to answer the coding questions and was not allowed to consult the internet for anything. The coding challenge was set at 75 minutes and allowed me to pick between a few languages to use. None of the languages had third party libraries available to make solving the problems similar to how most do while programming on the job. There were a few days between every step of the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Sort a set of linked nodes; Determine if a string has balanced brackets. Studying up on what you learned in your algorithm courses in college will really help with this interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2015
Interview
I was first contacted by a recruiter from Amazon who after asking me to complete a questionnaire. After this, the recruiter organized a technical interview by phone. A week later the recruiter contacted me again and organized another technical phone interview. After the second phone interview I was invited to fly to Seattle for on-site interviews.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write code for a simple implementation of a hash map.