Amazon

SDE-I Interview Experience

July 16, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Online Assessment (OA)
Virtual Loop (3 rounds)

Each round was an hour with a mix of DSA and Amazon Leadership Principles. Interviewers were friendly but focused heavily on code quality, test cases, and communication.

Questions

Challenging but fair.

The process tested both coding ability and behavioral alignment with Amazon’s Leadership Principles.

Clear communication and structured problem-solving were key.

I recommend strong prep on LeetCode and STAR format for behavioral questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 24 interview experiences for the Amazon SDE-I role in United States.

Success Rate

13%

Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their SDE-I roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive38%

Neutral54%

Negative8%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's SDE-I interview process in United States.

Amazon Work Experiences

Inclusive Team, Odd Hours

SDE-I • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: I like Amazon. The team I work on is pretty good at being inclusive, full of competent team members, and has good work-life balance.

Cons: Because my team works with global partners, there are times when I have to work later in the evening to match work timing with global partners.

Inclusive Team, Odd Hours

SDE-I • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: I like Amazon. The team I work on is pretty good at being inclusive, full of competent team members, and has good work-life balance.

Cons: Because my team works with global partners, there are times when I have to work later in the evening to match work timing with global partners.

Good Pay, Bad Balance

SDE-I • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: * Good pay * Learning curve is good

Cons: Work-life balance is bad.

Good Pay, Bad Balance

SDE-I • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: * Good pay * Learning curve is good

Cons: Work-life balance is bad.

Hire to fire

SDE-I • Former Employee

Pros: There are very intelligent engineers at Amazon from whom you can learn.

Cons: Some teams' jobs are just maintaining a 15-year-old service. When you are a new grad on this team, you will be more likely to get PIP after 6 months.

SDE-I • Former Employee

Pros: There are very intelligent engineers at Amazon from whom you can learn.

Cons: Some teams' jobs are just maintaining a 15-year-old service. When you are a new grad on this team, you will be more likely to get PIP after 6 months.

Inclusive Team, Odd Hours

SDE-I • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: I like Amazon. The team I work on is pretty good at being inclusive, full of competent team members, and has good work-life balance.

Cons: Because my team works with global partners, there are times when I have to work later in the evening to match work timing with global partners.

4.0
Inclusive Team, Odd Hours
SDE-I • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
April 7, 2022
Pros: I like Amazon. The team I work on is pretty good at being inclusive, full of competent team members, and has good work-life balance.
Cons: Because my team works with global partners, there are times when I have to work later in the evening to match work timing with global partners.

Good Pay, Bad Balance

SDE-I • Current Employee

Hyderābād, Telangana, India

Pros: * Good pay * Learning curve is good

Cons: Work-life balance is bad.

3.0
Good Pay, Bad Balance
SDE-I • Current Employee
Hyderābād, Telangana, India
April 18, 2025
Pros: * Good pay * Learning curve is good
Cons: Work-life balance is bad.

Hire to fire

SDE-I • Former Employee

Pros: There are very intelligent engineers at Amazon from whom you can learn.

Cons: Some teams' jobs are just maintaining a 15-year-old service. When you are a new grad on this team, you will be more likely to get PIP after 6 months.

3.0
Hire to fire
SDE-I • Former Employee
May 12, 2021
Pros: There are very intelligent engineers at Amazon from whom you can learn.
Cons: Some teams' jobs are just maintaining a 15-year-old service. When you are a new grad on this team, you will be more likely to get PIP after 6 months.

Amazon Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

You're given daily stock prices. Find the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock once. You must buy before you sell.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Reorganize String

Rearrange the characters in a given string such that no two adjacent characters are the same. If such an arrangement is possible, return it; otherwise, return an empty string.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

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