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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Experience

April 10, 2026
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Process

Status: 10 months of experience in a start-up

Interview dates:

  • March 1st week: Online round
  • March 2nd week: Virtual onsite rounds 1, 2, 3
  • March 4th week: Virtual onsite Bar Raiser
  • April 1st week: Result

Online round:

  • 2 coding questions (up to 90 min)
  • Describe your approach with space and time complexity for the 2 questions (up to 15 min)
  • A work style survey (up to 15 min)
  • A feedback survey (5 min)
  • Similar to Rotting Oranges
  • Similar to Number of Islands

Virtual onsite round 1:

  • Tell me about yourself
  • Given 2 employees and 2 functions:
    • getManager( employee ) returns immediate manager
    • getTeamMembers( employee ) returns team members
  • Find the Least Common Manager

Virtual onsite round 2:

  • Tell me about yourself
  • Merge k Sorted Lists
  • Unique paths

Virtual onsite round 3:

  • 45 mins of Leadership Principles questions
  • Similar to Maze

Bar Raiser:

  • 45 mins of Leadership Principles questions
  • Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1,308 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) role.

Success Rate

16%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive65%
Neutral25%
Negative10%

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

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