Amazon

SDE-intern Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

March 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

45-minute interview. It included 3 behavioral questions and 1 technical question on medium BFS.

The interviewer was not super communicative or friendly but was helpful during the technical portion. The interview was conducted on Amazon Chime.

For the technical part, the coding IDE does not have a run button, so you should mainly focus on getting the logic right rather than the syntax of your code.

Questions

Tell a time you failed to make a deadline.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 73 interview experiences for the Amazon SDE-intern role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

49%

Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their SDE-intern roles in Seattle, Washington is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive73%

Neutral23%

Negative4%

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

Amazon Work Experiences

Rewarding Project, Lacking Guidance

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

November 4, 2020

Pros: Worked on the advertising team. The project was hard and design requirements changed a lot, but it was rewarding when I got it done.

Cons: Design requirements changed a lot, and I felt a little too unguided and independent. It would be nice if my mentor worked with me more.

Rewarding Project, Lacking Guidance

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

November 4, 2020

Pros: Worked on the advertising team. The project was hard and design requirements changed a lot, but it was rewarding when I got it done.

Cons: Design requirements changed a lot, and I felt a little too unguided and independent. It would be nice if my mentor worked with me more.

Overall, a nice experience

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

February 23, 2021

Pros: I got a nice work environment.

Cons: The only con is that I sometimes had to work over weekends to complete my assignments.

Overall, a nice experience

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

February 23, 2021

Pros: I got a nice work environment.

Cons: The only con is that I sometimes had to work over weekends to complete my assignments.

Varies incredibly on team

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Mostly smart workers. Decent managers. Good salary.

Cons: Some interns are given projects that nobody really cares about or will use. To a minor level: the perks. Personally, it's not about the money saved from free lunch, but the nice gesture and message this sends about caring about your employees. Look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Varies incredibly on team

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Mostly smart workers. Decent managers. Good salary.

Cons: Some interns are given projects that nobody really cares about or will use. To a minor level: the perks. Personally, it's not about the money saved from free lunch, but the nice gesture and message this sends about caring about your employees. Look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Rewarding Project, Lacking Guidance

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

November 4, 2020

Pros: Worked on the advertising team. The project was hard and design requirements changed a lot, but it was rewarding when I got it done.

Cons: Design requirements changed a lot, and I felt a little too unguided and independent. It would be nice if my mentor worked with me more.

5.0
Rewarding Project, Lacking Guidance
SDE-intern • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
November 4, 2020
Pros: Worked on the advertising team. The project was hard and design requirements changed a lot, but it was rewarding when I got it done.
Cons: Design requirements changed a lot, and I felt a little too unguided and independent. It would be nice if my mentor worked with me more.

Overall, a nice experience

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

February 23, 2021

Pros: I got a nice work environment.

Cons: The only con is that I sometimes had to work over weekends to complete my assignments.

5.0
Overall, a nice experience
SDE-intern • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
February 23, 2021
Pros: I got a nice work environment.
Cons: The only con is that I sometimes had to work over weekends to complete my assignments.

Varies incredibly on team

SDE-intern • Former Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

Pros: Mostly smart workers. Decent managers. Good salary.

Cons: Some interns are given projects that nobody really cares about or will use. To a minor level: the perks. Personally, it's not about the money saved from free lunch, but the nice gesture and message this sends about caring about your employees. Look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

3.0
Varies incredibly on team
SDE-intern • Former Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
June 7, 2014
Pros: Mostly smart workers. Decent managers. Good salary.
Cons: Some interns are given projects that nobody really cares about or will use. To a minor level: the perks. Personally, it's not about the money saved from free lunch, but the nice gesture and message this sends about caring about your employees. Look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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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