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Software Development Engineer Interview Experience

December 18, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

  1. Apply online
  2. Pass the OA
  3. Provide availability for final round interviews
  4. Three back-to-back interviews:
  • One is low-level design which starts with introductions and two quick behavioral questions and jumps into the coding questions immediately. The question is vague so you will have to ask lots of questions for the interviewer to provide you with information.
  • The next round is either completely behavioral or Leetcode style. In a Leetcode-style interview, they will give you two coding questions. They type the question on the shared coding platform, and again you have to ask questions to get the scope of the problem and get the constraints out of the interviewer. Usually, this will give you a pretty good idea of how to solve it. ALWAYS start with the naive solution and then suggest the optimization. Sometimes the interviewer will want you to solve the question a certain way and they will hint at the kind of solution they are looking for, so listen carefully.
  • The behavioral round is completely based on the Leadership Principles, so prepare good stories and carefully listen to the question to deduce what leadership principles the interviewer is looking for. Usually, one question would cover 2-3 principles and the interviewer will go deep into your story with lots of follow-ups to get the full picture.

Questions

Tell me about a time you had to work with incomplete data or incomplete information.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 574 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Development Engineer role.

Success Rate

27%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral29%
Negative10%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Software Development Engineer interview process.

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