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.
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.
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I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2014
Interview
The process was a mess - they scheduled a phone call and the requiter just did not call, I had to remind him about the call. Then they scheduled a phone screening and canceled 15 minutes after it was supposed to start...
The phone screening itself was not extremely difficult, it included 1 tech questions and several "leadership" questions.
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tech question was not very hard, but note there is time limit
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sep 2014
Interview
Was interviewed for Associates team in Bangalore. Worst experience. Three people talked to me in September. The 2 Senior developer managers didn't know anything about development. Zero. Wasted my time. And never will I work with such morons who think they can manage developers without any acetate knowledge.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
In my case, there was no phone interview before invited to the on-site interview. It was quite big interview event for New Grads. The event took a whole day from around 9am to 5pm. They made several groups with three members and each group receive a project to be solved in that day which is a kind of simplified version of problem that Amazon is currently facing in real world.
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Question 1
It took quite a bit of time to understand the problem exactly. One project is divided into three problems and each team member chooses one problem they want. Three problems are not that tightly related.