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SDE 1 Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

September 29, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

3 rounds

  • Bar riser
  • LLD

Each interview is an hour. They have about 3-4 questions prepared per interview. So if you answer each question in 3 minutes, the interview will be over in 20 minutes. It will also depend on the level you are interviewing for and how much detail you need to provide. I think my answers were between 6-10 minutes based on the complexity of the question/situation.

You can have notes, but make sure you are not reading from them. If your examples have a lot of numbers, it's easy to forget those.

Also, I had a list of my stories and would cross them out after each loop. This way, I would clearly see what else I had left and what was already used.

  • 2 LC questions
  • Behavioral question
  • 1 Low-level question

Questions

Tell a situation where you outperformed.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 13 interview experiences for the Amazon SDE 1 role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

0%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their SDE 1 roles in Seattle, Washington is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive69%
Neutral15%
Negative15%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's SDE 1 interview process in Seattle, Washington.