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Amazon Software Engineer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 27 Feb 2025

Top Amazon Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Reverse a Singly Linked List Given a singly linked list of integers, your task is to return the head of the reversed linked list. Explanation: Reverse a given singly lin ...read more
  • Q2. Sum Between Zeroes Problem Statement Given a singly linked list containing a series of integers separated by the integer '0', modify the list by merging nodes between tw ...read more
  • Q3. Reverse Linked List Problem Statement Given a singly linked list of integers, your task is to return the head of the reversed linked list. Example: Input: The given link ...read more
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Amazon Software Engineer Interview Experiences

78 interviews found

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jun 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Online coding test with 2 questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Number of Islands (on lc)
  • Ans. 

    Count the number of islands in a 2D grid where '1' represents land and '0' represents water.

    • Iterate through the grid and for each '1' encountered, perform a depth-first search to mark all adjacent '1's as visited.

    • Increment the island count for each new island found.

    • Ensure to handle boundary conditions and visited cells properly to avoid infinite loops.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Another question in Amazon tagged

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before May 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1 on 1 with engineer simple coding questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Linked list and operations for array on linked list
  • Ans. 

    Linked list is a data structure where each element points to the next element. Operations like insertion, deletion, traversal can be performed on linked lists.

    • Linked list is a linear data structure where elements are stored in nodes. Each node contains data and a reference to the next node.

    • Operations on linked list include insertion, deletion, traversal, and searching.

    • For example, to insert a new node at the beginning ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Find treasury island DFS 2D array
  • Ans. 

    Treasury Island can be found using Depth First Search on a 2D array of strings.

    • Implement a Depth First Search algorithm to traverse the 2D array of strings

    • Start from a specific point on the island and explore all possible paths

    • Keep track of visited cells to avoid infinite loops

    • Return the path that leads to the treasury on the island

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Algorithms

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Jul 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

2 questions, hackerank platform

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Create a minesweeper game
  • Ans. 

    Create a classic minesweeper game with a grid of cells to uncover without hitting any mines.

    • Create a grid of cells with hidden mines randomly placed

    • Allow the player to uncover cells and reveal numbers indicating nearby mines

    • Implement logic to end the game if a mine is uncovered or all non-mine cells are revealed

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Given a csv file with users and the websites they visited, find the top k most visited website patterns by users
  • Ans. 

    Use a combination of sliding window and hashmap to find top k most visited website patterns by users

    • Parse the csv file to extract user and website data

    • Use a sliding window to generate all possible website patterns for each user

    • Use a hashmap to count the frequency of each website pattern

    • Sort the website patterns based on frequency and return the top k patterns

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Indeed and was interviewed in Nov 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Implementing Hashed Map

Round 3 - Assignment 

Online test about working.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Follow Leader Principals.
Memo what you want to say.

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I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Apr 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Medium level leetcode problems on popular topics.

Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Again some tree and graph problems with puzzle and language proficiency.
  • Q2. Tree comman questions.
  • Q3. Graph problems with popular algo implementations
  • Ans. 

    Graph problems and popular algo implementations

    • Shortest Path: Dijkstra's, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall

    • Minimum Spanning Tree: Prim's, Kruskal's

    • Topological Sorting: Kahn's, DFS

    • Max Flow: Ford-Fulkerson, Edmonds-Karp

    • Travelling Salesman Problem: Held-Karp, Christofides

    • Graph Coloring: Greedy, Backtracking

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why you want to join Amazon ?
  • Q2. Do you believe in long term or short term benefits ?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Hands on popular DSA problems and good condition on projects.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Get interview-ready with Top Amazon Interview Questions

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Aug 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Logical reasoning,quants,python basics or any

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Basics of any languages fundamentals,basics of dsa

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. General questions regarding your family,friends
  • Q2. Strength and weakness

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - be familiar in any one language,be confident the hr will not eat you

Software Engineer Jobs at Amazon

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Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all Resume tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Binary search , recursion and optimizing the code solving in linear time complexity

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Reverse a linked list
  • Ans. 

    Reverse a linked list

    • Iterate through the linked list and change the direction of the pointers

    • Use three pointers to keep track of current, previous and next nodes

    • Recursively reverse the linked list

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Subsequences of arrays
  • Ans. 

    Subsequences of arrays are all possible combinations of elements in an array.

    • A subsequence can be of any length, including 0 and the entire array.

    • The order of elements in a subsequence must be maintained.

    • The number of possible subsequences of an array of length n is 2^n.

    • For example, the subsequences of [1, 2, 3] are [], [1], [2], [3], [1, 2], [1, 3], [2, 3], [1, 2, 3].

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and try to solve they don expect from us to know everything

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in May 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 DSA questions (easy-medium level)

Round 2 - Behavioral interview 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Nearly 60 questions based on behaviour
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interview 3 Medium DSA question in 1 hr

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Amazon Software Engineer interview:
  • DSA
  • Behavioural Training
  • Fundamentals
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on DSA and behavioural questions, also on CS fundaments.

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Total score, time complete

Round 3 - Coding Test 

Basic, intermediate coding

Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Introducing your self
  • Ans. Good afternoon sir First of all l, thank you for giving this opportunity to introduce my self. My name is Mosam prajapati As far as my education qualification is concerned, i have done B.E with computer stream from sal Institute of technology and engineering research. I had completed my schooling from shradha vidhyamandir, Ahmedabad. I am a basic coding languages python, django, html, css.
  • Answered Anonymously

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Amazon Software Engineer interview:
  • Python
  • Django
  • PHP
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Positivity and persistence are key. Stay optimistic throughout the process and keep going until you achieve your goals.

I applied via Newspaper Ad

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

General question of aptitude we're asked about background

Round 3 - Coding Test 

Leetcode medium questions were asked by them

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare leetcode very hard that would be good enough preparation
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Amazon Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Amazon Software Engineer interview?
Amazon interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Amazon interview process are Coding Test, Technical and Resume Shortlist.
How to prepare for Amazon 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, Clinical SAS Programming, Medical Coding, System Architecture and Computer Science.
What are the top questions asked in Amazon Software Engineer interview?

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

  1. You have given 10 files and you have given a string suggest data structure whic...read more
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  3. Explain the difference between ArrayList and LinkedList in Java. ArrayList is i...read more
How long is the Amazon Software Engineer interview process?

The duration of Amazon Software Engineer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about 2-4 weeks to complete.

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