Upload Button Icon Add office photos
Engaged Employer

i

This company page is being actively managed by Amazon Team. If you also belong to the team, you can get access from here

Amazon Verified Tick

Compare button icon Compare button icon Compare

Filter interviews by

Amazon Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 21 Jan 2025

Amazon Senior Software Engineer Interview Experiences

8 interviews found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Coding and behavioral questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Related to Dp and other questions is related to array like reverse and find duplicate in an array, String matching Questions

Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies

asked in DBS Bank
Q1. Tell me about yourself. What technology are you using? What is a ... read more
asked in GlobalLogic
Q2. MapSum Pair Implementation Create a data structure named 'MapSum' ... read more
asked in UST
Q3. Nth Prime Number Problem Statement Find the Nth prime number give ... read more
asked in Capgemini
Q4. Pascal's Triangle Construction You are provided with an integer ' ... read more
Q5. K Largest Elements Problem Statement You are given an integer k a ... read more
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Half an hour Java boilerplate question

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

1 Hour, Binary Search + Greedy, Chime

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - DSA, DSA, DSA ...

Amazon interview questions for designations

 Senior Software Engineer Testing

 (1)

 Senior Software Development Engineer

 (1)

 Software Engineer

 (75)

 Senior Software Developer

 (1)

 Senior Software Associate

 (1)

 Software Development Engineer

 (35)

 Software Engineer Intern

 (13)

 Embedded Software Engineer

 (4)

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Dsa and algorithms with design

Round 2 - Case Study 

Design sw update system

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Group Discussion 

Guestimate were asked like how many syringes are used in a city

Senior Software Engineer Jobs at Amazon

View all
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1 hr
Coding qn on dynamic programing

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Project Related

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare yourself clearly before taking any interview
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Apr 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - System Design 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Google Autocomplete problem.
  • Ans. 

    Google Autocomplete problem involves predicting the most likely search queries based on partial input.

    • Utilize algorithms like Trie or N-gram models to efficiently predict search queries.

    • Consider user's location, search history, and popular queries for better predictions.

    • Implement real-time updating of autocomplete suggestions based on user input.

    • Optimize for speed and accuracy to enhance user experience.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Spiral Problem matrix
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Word Search2 problem. Interviewer wanted solution other than trie.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Amazon Senior Software Engineer interview:
  • Graphs

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview questions from similar companies

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Test
Experience: The written test did NOT involve general aptitude questions. Most questions were CS specific and pertained to some kind of algorithmic analysis, design of recursive solutions, designing and tracing out an algorithm on a given sample etc. About 50-60% of the candidates were eliminated in this round.

Round: Test
Experience: The next round was a coding assignment. For those familiar with code-chef, the coding assignment was similar to a medium level problem (in the practice section) and had to be done in C. The codingassignment by design, required algorithmic optimization to execute within the prescribed time limit. About 10 candidates (8 UG and 2 PG) were selected for interviews. Yahoo generally conducts 4 technical interviews and an HR interview. Typically, 2 of the 4 tech interviews will be with immediate seniors in teams that are interested in your profile. The remaining two will be with more senior engineers (in fact, one of my interviews was with the tech director of a vertical at Yahoo). Interviewers discuss with each other after each interview, and some candidates were eliminated after one poor interview. It is therefore quite important to do

General Tips: Apart from technical skills, your communication and social skills are what can make or break an interview and eventually, decide whether or not you get the job. Objectively speaking, most candidates who make it to the final round will be very technically proficient. Therefore, your aim should be to make the decision regarding your candidature anything BUT objective. The real advantage of an interview is to let the interviewer know YOU, beyond just your written test score or your academic credentials. Interviewers like confidence in a candidate and it can even make you seem better than you really are. It will also help to have a few well thought out questions in mind for your interviewer, to show him that you have put in more effort than other candidates to find out about the kind of work going on at the company. One thing youcan do is to find out who all the interviewers are during the pre-placement talk (Yes, attending the PPT CAN BE USEFUL). General Tips Preparation Look up their LinkedIn profiles and note what projects they have worked on or guided. Asking a few insightful questions about those specific projects is a good way to create a good impression of you. It is very difficult to truly judge a candidate during a 45 minute interview, so what matters a lot is the impression left in the interviewers mind about you. If possible, try to establish a social connect during your limited interaction with the interviewers, BEFORE the interviews take place. For example, one of my interviewers, a senior tech manager at Yahoo, was an NITK alumnus. Before the interviews, I spoke to him about his experience in college. As it turns out, he was one of the founders of the web club at NITK, of which I am a member. We spoke for about 15 minutes about how the club has grown and how the club has helped its members ever since.
Skill Tips: For a computer science student who intends to take up a technical job at a tier 1 company, spend as much time as possible, honing your technical skills. Start well before placement season, if possible, in 3rd year itself
College Name: NIT SURATHKAL

Interview Questionnaire 

8 Questions

  • Q1. Given two “ids” and a function getFriends(id) to get the list of friends of that person id, write a function that returns the list of mutual friends
  • Ans. 

    Function to return mutual friends given two ids and getFriends(id) function

    • Call getFriends(id) for both ids to get their respective friend lists

    • Iterate through both lists and compare to find mutual friends

    • Return the list of mutual friends

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Given an “id” and a function getFriends(id) to get the list of friends of that person id, write a function that returns the list of “friends of friends” in the order of decreasing number of mutual friends,...
  • Ans. 

    Function to return list of friends of friends in decreasing order of mutual friends

    • Use a set to store all friends of friends

    • Iterate through the list of friends of the given id

    • For each friend, iterate through their list of friends and count mutual friends

    • Sort the set of friends of friends by decreasing number of mutual friends

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Given a number of time slots – start time and end time,“a b”, find any specific time with the maximum number of overlapping. After solving the problem I had to prove my solution
  • Ans. 

    Given time slots, find a specific time with maximum overlap. Prove solution.

    • Create a list of all start and end times

    • Sort the list in ascending order

    • Iterate through the list and keep track of the number of overlaps at each time

    • Return the time with the maximum number of overlaps

    • Prove solution by testing with different input sizes and edge cases

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Given an array of Integers, find the Longest sub-array whose elements are in Increasing Order
  • Ans. 

    Find the longest sub-array with increasing order of integers.

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the current sub-array's start and end indices.

    • Update the start index whenever the current element is smaller than the previous element.

    • Update the end index whenever the current element is greater than or equal to the next element.

    • Calculate the length of the sub-array and compare it with the longest sub-array found s

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. Given an array of Integers, find the length of Longest Increasing Subsequence and print the sequence.
  • Ans. 

    Find the length of longest increasing subsequence and print the sequence from an array of integers.

    • Use dynamic programming to solve the problem

    • Create an array to store the length of longest increasing subsequence ending at each index

    • Traverse the array and update the length of longest increasing subsequence for each index

    • Print the sequence by backtracking from the index with the maximum length

    • Time complexity: O(n^2)

    • Exam...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Given a Sorted Array which has been rotated, write the code to find a given Integer
  • Ans. 

    Code to find a given integer in a rotated sorted array.

    • Use binary search to find the pivot point where the array is rotated.

    • Divide the array into two subarrays and perform binary search on the appropriate subarray.

    • Handle edge cases such as the target integer not being present in the array.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. You have a number of incoming Integers, all of which cannot be stored into memory. We need to print largest K numbers at the end of input
  • Ans. 

    Use a min-heap to keep track of the largest K numbers seen so far.

    • Create a min-heap of size K.

    • For each incoming integer, add it to the heap if it's larger than the smallest element in the heap.

    • If the heap size exceeds K, remove the smallest element.

    • At the end, the heap will contain the largest K numbers in the input.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. Implement LRU Cache
  • Ans. 

    LRU Cache is a data structure that stores the most recently used items and discards the least recently used items.

    • Use a doubly linked list to keep track of the order of items in the cache

    • Use a hash map to store the key-value pairs for fast access

    • When an item is accessed, move it to the front of the linked list

    • When the cache is full, remove the least recently used item from the back of the linked list and the hash map

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: ONLINE CODING ROUND
Experience: Facebook visited our campus in July, 2012. We had an online coding round hosted on InterviewStreet. We were asked to solve just one problem. The given problem boils down to : Given a undirected graph, source and destination, write the code to find the total number of distinct nodes visited, considering all possible paths.
Tips: Those shortlisted had to fly to Delhi for a Personal Interview. There were four rounds of interview, each of 45 minutes. The questions were simple. But just solving the given problem wasn't enough.

There was much more interaction and short questions asked related to the problem

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: The above mentioned questions wer asked in the interview. For every solution I was asked to write the code on paper. The code should also include the implementation of the data structures used (I used heaps - so I was asked to implement heaps ). They are looking for someone with good problem solving skills and conceptually sound in data structures

College Name: BIT MESRA

Skills evaluated in this interview

Amazon Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Amazon Senior Software Engineer interview?
Amazon interview process usually has 1-2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Amazon interview process are Coding Test, Technical and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for Amazon Senior Software Engineer interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Amazon. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Amazon expect are Architectural Design, Technical Leadership, Clinical SAS Programming, System Architecture and Medical Coding.
What are the top questions asked in Amazon Senior Software Engineer interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Amazon Senior Software Engineer interview -

  1. Google Autocomplete probl...read more
  2. Coding and behavioral questi...read more
  3. Spiral Problem mat...read more

Tell us how to improve this page.

Amazon Senior Software Engineer Interview Process

based on 8 interviews

1 Interview rounds

  • Coding Test Round
View more
Amazon Senior Software Engineer Salary
based on 438 salaries
₹20.1 L/yr - ₹77.7 L/yr
206% more than the average Senior Software Engineer Salary in India
View more details

Amazon Senior Software Engineer Reviews and Ratings

based on 11 reviews

2.8/5

Rating in categories

2.6

Skill development

2.8

Work-life balance

3.7

Salary

2.7

Job security

2.4

Company culture

2.7

Promotions

2.3

Work satisfaction

Explore 11 Reviews and Ratings
Senior Software Engineer, Emerging Device Software

Bangalore / Bengaluru

3-12 Yrs

Not Disclosed

Senior Software Engineer

Bangalore / Bengaluru

8-13 Yrs

Not Disclosed

Senior Software Engineer, Transportation Financial Systems

Bangalore / Bengaluru

3-7 Yrs

₹ 10-120 LPA

Explore more jobs
Customer Service Associate
4.2k salaries
unlock blur

₹0.6 L/yr - ₹6.8 L/yr

Transaction Risk Investigator
3.1k salaries
unlock blur

₹2.3 L/yr - ₹6.3 L/yr

Associate
2.9k salaries
unlock blur

₹0.8 L/yr - ₹7 L/yr

Senior Associate
2.5k salaries
unlock blur

₹2 L/yr - ₹10.5 L/yr

Program Manager
2.1k salaries
unlock blur

₹9 L/yr - ₹36 L/yr

Explore more salaries
Compare Amazon with

Flipkart

3.9
Compare

TCS

3.7
Compare

Google

4.4
Compare

Netflix

4.5
Compare
Did you find this page helpful?
Yes No
write
Share an Interview