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Amazon Software Developer Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Updated 16 Sep 2024

Top Amazon Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

  • Q1. Maximum Subarray Sum Given an array of numbers, find the maximum sum of any contiguous subarray of the array. For example, given the array [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86], the ...read more
  • Q2. Minimum Number of Platform Needed You are given the arrival and departure times of N trains at a railway station in a day. You need to find the minimum of platforms requi ...read more
  • Q3. Fenwick Tree You are given an array/list 'ARR' of ‘N’ integers, and ‘Q’ queries. Each query can be of two types: Given 2 integers ‘L’,’R’ ( L>=0 and R Given an index ‘i’ ...read more
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Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Jul 2024

Interview experience
Rating 5
Very good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

6 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

It was a coding test on Hackerrank with 3 Leetcode easy to medium-level questions.

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Phone Interview Round - LP-based discussion followed by an easy DSA question. Add Answer
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Loop Round 1 (Hiring Manager Round) - LP-based discussion followed by a system design question (HLD) which was basically around what the hiring team is working ...read more Add Answer
4

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Loop Round 2 (Coding Round) - LP-based discussion followed by a Leetcode medium coding question. Add Answer
5

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Loop Round 3 (Coding Round) - LP-based discussion followed by an OOD question which was fairly simple but the requirements were not clarified very well even on ...read more Add Answer
6

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Loop Round 4 (Coding Round) (Bar Raiser) - LP-based discussion followed by a Leetcode medium coding question. Add Answer

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Amazon Software Developer interview:
  • Data Structures
  • Algorithms
  • System Design
  • Object Oriented Design
  • Amazon Leadership Principles
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well for DSA and System Design.

Stay confident.

For System Design and OOD, always clarify the requirements since it's very open-ended and subjective. And do keep an eye on the clock.

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

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  • Java
  • C++
  • Python
  • Algorithms
  • C
  • Data Structures
  • High level design
  • Coding

Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 1 Mar 2024

Interview experience
Rating 4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Feb 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Operating system, java , dynamic programing View Answers (1)
  • Q2. Question on fork system call level 2 page table in OS Questions on thread Preorder traversal of BST Add Answer
2

Coding Test Round

Reversal link list k times

3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Question on time complexity bitwise operation in c Add Answer

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

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  • Development
  • Distribution System
  • Machine Learning
  • Software Development
  • System Design
  • Troubleshooting
  • ARM
  • Architecture

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Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 23 Sep 2023

Interview experience
Rating 4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

2 medium DS algo questions was there

2

One-on-one Round (5 Questions)

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

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  • Automation
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  • Computer Vision
  • Computer science
  • Data Processing
  • Deployment
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Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 9 Oct 2023

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

I applied via Shine and was interviewed in Sep 2023.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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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2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. IQ test and Personal intelligence test. Add Answer
3

Aptitude Test Round

IQ & Reasoning with Situation dealing test.

4

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

5

HR Round (1 Question)

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  • Design Patterns
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Software Developer Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 17 May 2022

I was interviewed in May 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

90 minutes round Seven debugging questions, two coding questions, Behavioural questions

  • Q1. Maximum Path Sum Between Two Leaves You are given a non-empty binary tree where each node has a non-negative integer value. Return the maximum possible sum of p...read more View Answers (4)
  • Q2. Path In A Tree You are given a binary tree with ‘N’ number of nodes and a node ‘X’. Your task is to print the path from the root node to the given node ‘X’. A b...read more View Answers (1)
2

Face to Face Round (2 Questions)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The interviewer directly stated with coding question. He asked me 2 coding questions and he was aspecting the optimal working code of both.

  • Q1. Boundary Traversal You have been given a binary tree of integers. Your task is to print the boundary nodes of this binary tree in Anti-Clockwise direction start...read more View Answers (2)
  • Q2. Maximum Consecutive Ones Given a binary array 'ARR' of size 'N', your task is to find the longest sequence of continuous 1’s that can be formed ...read more View Answers (4)
3

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

The interviewer started with tell me about your self. Then he started asking about my previous intenship projects and some Common Hr questions like why you want to join amazon. This went for almost 30 minutes then he asked me to solve a coding question similar to Rotten Orange question.

  • Q1. Rotting Oranges You have been given a grid containing some oranges. Each cell of this grid has one of the three integers values: Value 0 - representing an empty...read more View Answers (3)

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. Eligibility criteriaNoAmazon interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - DSA, ALGORITHMS, Dynamic Programming, Graph, OOPS, PointersTime required to prepare for the interview - 2 yearsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Practice as many questions as u can
Tip 2 : Focus on DSA

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Add some good projects
Tip 2 : Don't add copied Projects

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

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  • OOP
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operations
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Problem Solving
  • Project Delivery
  • Quality
  • SDET

Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 31 Oct 2023

Interview experience
Rating 4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in May 2023.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Graph based colorization problem and DP problem. Add Answer
  • Q2. Tree based questions and one Graph based Questions Add Answer
3

Coding Test Round

Graph based questions and dynamic programming simple questions

4

Coding Test Round

Graph based questions and one Dp problem

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Kindly focus on coding skills.

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Java
  • C++
  • Python
  • Algorithms
  • C
  • Data Structures
  • High level design
  • Coding

Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Naga Pradeepthi Siddi

posted on 25 Aug 2024

Interview experience
Rating 5
Very good
Difficulty level
Easy
Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Quantitative aptitude

2

Group Discussion Round

Impact of social media

3

Coding Test Round

Graphs,heaps and data structures

4

HR Round (2 Questions)

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Development
  • Distribution System
  • Machine Learning
  • Software Development
  • System Design
  • Troubleshooting
  • ARM
  • Architecture

Software Developer interview

user image Arsh Goyal

posted on 11 Jan 2022

Software Developer Interview Questions

user image CodingNinjas

posted on 31 May 2022

I was interviewed in May 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round (3 Questions)

Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

Timing-90 Duration Of Assessment 
you need to give the test within 5 days of getting the test mail.

Test is conducted virtually through Hackerrank platform and after that it redirects to Amazon page where we need to answer questions related to Amazon’s Leadership Principles and workstyles.

  • Q1. Unique Paths You are present at point ‘A’ which is the top-left cell of an M X N matrix, your destination is point ‘B’, which is the bottom-right cell of the sa...read more View Answers (5)
  • Q2. Left View Of Binary Tree Given a binary tree. Print the Left View of the Tree. Example : If the input tree is as depicted in the picture: The Left View of the t...read more View Answers (3)
  • Q3. Basic HR Questions we need to answer questions related to Amazon’s Leadership Principles, candidate behavior questions and workstyles. For Example- Do you agree...read more Add Answer
2

Face to Face Round (1 Question)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

We need to solve 1 or 2(based on interviewer) coding question within 1 hour in which we need to explain our approach before writing the code and we need to give optimal solution of the approach.

  • Q1. Minimum Jumps Bob lives with his wife in a city named Berland. Bob is a good husband, so he goes out with his wife every Friday to ‘Arcade’ mall. ‘Arcade’ is a ...read more View Answers (4)

Interview Preparation Tips

Professional and academic backgroundI completed Computer Science Engineering from Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University Of Science And Technology. I applied for the job as SDE - 1 in BangaloreEligibility criteria7 CGPA, good in programming/DSAAmazon interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, OOPS, DBMS, OSTime required to prepare for the interview - 6 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Do lots of competitive programming
Tip 2 : Create a nice portfolio on any coding platform like LeetCode or CodeChef because it will attract recruiter's. 
Tip 3 : Pick only one Programming language for coding because it will help you to learn syntax by heart.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Try to make resume of single column because it easily bypass the parser/scanner 
Tip 2 : Do not put false things and over skills in your resume.
Tip 3 : Either you are fresher or experienced still don't make resume more than 2 pages.

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automation
  • Business Services
  • Computer Vision
  • Computer science
  • Data Processing
  • Deployment
  • Design

Software Developer Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 25 Oct 2023

Interview experience
Rating 3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) and was interviewed in Apr 2023.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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2

Aptitude Test Round

There is a aptitute test consists of technical and coding question from Oops ,DBMS , Os , CN etc

3

Coding Test Round

The next round consists of a 3 question coding test from Data Structure and Algorithms .

4

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Question related to the Algorithms in Data structures etc . Add Answer
  • Q2. Maximum subarray sum Add Answer
5

HR Round (1 Question)

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - No went

Top skills recommended for Amazon Software Developer interview

Insights by AmbitionBox
  • Design Patterns
  • Framework Design
  • Hibernate
  • Image Processing
  • Kernel
  • Linux Kernel
  • Medical Imaging
  • Natural Language Processing

Amazon Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Amazon Software Developer 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 Developer 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 Java, C++, Python, Algorithms and C.
What are the top questions asked in Amazon Software Developer interview?

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

  1. There is a 12 km road and a contractor who is in-charge of repairing it. Contra...read more
  2. 14. you have given a string of multiline. you have to print the maximum occupa...read more
  3. What are the different types of hashing? Suggest an alternative and a better wa...read more
How long is the Amazon Software Developer interview process?

The duration of Amazon Software Developer interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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Interview Process at Amazon Software Developer

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4 Interview rounds

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based on 44 Amazon interviews
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27%
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18%
16%
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14% candidates got the interview through other sources.
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