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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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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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.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2015
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter and after an initial screening, i was given an online test to complete.
Once i submitted that, i was informed that i cleared the test and was invited over to Seattle for the onsite interview.
The interview was a very positive experience. I had 5 interviews each 45-mins in Seattle. 4 of them included white board coding and 1 was purely behavioral.
It was a very positive experience for me overall. However i did feel a bit bad about the way one of the interviewers behaved.
i was writing on the whiteboard and i turned to explain, i saw the interviewer rolling her/his eyes at me. that was a real mood killer and my confidence did a nose-dive. I had heard that amazon trained their interviewers extensively and this particular behavior was surprising to say the least and left a bad taste.
I was able to give solutions for every single problem in all these interview sessions and had thought i might get an offer. Unfortunately, i did not get through !
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