Amazon

Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Experience

April 1, 2024

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process was easy until the final round interview. The first time, the interviewer stood me up, and I needed to reschedule.

The HR representative was apologetic but impersonal. I felt the bureaucracy of the large company; it seemed they didn’t care about me as an interviewee.

Questions

Write a Microsoft Paint-esque program that fills neighboring cells of a 2D array with the same number to a new number. This was a Breadth-First Search question, and I was rusty on that data structure. The interviewer was nice but didn’t make me want to be a programmer.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 529 interview experiences for the Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) role in United States.

Success Rate

19%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral29%

Negative11%

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

Amazon Work Experiences

Great Reasons, No Cons

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Pros: There are many reasons to work.

Cons: There is no con in Amazon.

Great Reasons, No Cons

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Pros: There are many reasons to work.

Cons: There is no con in Amazon.

Hard Problems, Toxic Culture

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Pros: Lot of hard problems to solve at scale.

Cons: Culture is super bad, with every senior person blaming their junior.

Hard Problems, Toxic Culture

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Pros: Lot of hard problems to solve at scale.

Cons: Culture is super bad, with every senior person blaming their junior.

Great Guidance, Extra Hours

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

November 16, 2021

Pros: Opportunity to work independently and with great guidance on difficult challenges, such as the re-design of an internal audit system. Opportunity to work with and improve technologies such as AWS and CDK. Great team, mentorship, and management experience, with amazing support over the whole internship. Worked fully remote with the flexibility to go to the office.

Cons: Working extra hours to deliver the project on time.

Great Guidance, Extra Hours

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

November 16, 2021

Pros: Opportunity to work independently and with great guidance on difficult challenges, such as the re-design of an internal audit system. Opportunity to work with and improve technologies such as AWS and CDK. Great team, mentorship, and management experience, with amazing support over the whole internship. Worked fully remote with the flexibility to go to the office.

Cons: Working extra hours to deliver the project on time.

Great Reasons, No Cons

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Pros: There are many reasons to work.

Cons: There is no con in Amazon.

5.0
Great Reasons, No Cons
Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Current Employee
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
June 23, 2022
Pros: There are many reasons to work.
Cons: There is no con in Amazon.

Hard Problems, Toxic Culture

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Pros: Lot of hard problems to solve at scale.

Cons: Culture is super bad, with every senior person blaming their junior.

1.0
Hard Problems, Toxic Culture
Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
August 3, 2023
Pros: Lot of hard problems to solve at scale.
Cons: Culture is super bad, with every senior person blaming their junior.

Great Guidance, Extra Hours

Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

November 16, 2021

Pros: Opportunity to work independently and with great guidance on difficult challenges, such as the re-design of an internal audit system. Opportunity to work with and improve technologies such as AWS and CDK. Great team, mentorship, and management experience, with amazing support over the whole internship. Worked fully remote with the flexibility to go to the office.

Cons: Working extra hours to deliver the project on time.

4.0
Great Guidance, Extra Hours
Software Development Engineer (SDE) • Former Employee
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
November 16, 2021
Pros: Opportunity to work independently and with great guidance on difficult challenges, such as the re-design of an internal audit system. Opportunity to work with and improve technologies such as AWS and CDK. Great team, mentorship, and management experience, with amazing support over the whole internship. Worked fully remote with the flexibility to go to the office.
Cons: Working extra hours to deliver the project on time.

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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