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Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Experience

March 1, 2025
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

It took them six months to get back after the initial assessment. Meanwhile, I couldn't monitor the progress of my own application, and the HR department was completely negligent and unresponsive. The interviews themselves were mostly fine, but the behavioral interview was brutal.

Questions

The technical went as you'd expect: an easy, medium, and hard LeetCode question each.

However, the behavioral was brutal and unexpected. They wanted me to justify, with numbers and in as much detail as possible, my entire resume. This extended to details like the capacity of the database and the attribute names, including the bit-size assigned to them.

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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.

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