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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Experience - Seattle, Washington

June 1, 2025
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were three rounds, each lasting one hour, and all were conducted on the same day.

Each round consisted of two parts:

  • The first 25-30 minutes focused on behavioral questions.
  • The remaining 25-30 minutes were dedicated to a Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) question.

Two of the DSA questions were LeetCode medium-level and tagged with Amazon, while one was a hard-level question.

The interviewers were friendly and helpful, never intimidating or arrogant.

Questions

All the regular behavioral questions were asked, for example:

  • How do you take criticism?
  • How do you identify the root cause of a problem?

They weren’t particularly tough, but each question had multiple follow-ups and could be quite grilling.

The LeetCode questions were recently Amazon-tagged and were only minor variations of those.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 129 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) role in Seattle, Washington.

Success Rate

16%
Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive61%
Neutral29%
Negative9%

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

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