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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 22, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA

      Other Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Amazon

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 3, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      Recruiter screen, followed by an online coding assessment and then a technical phone interview. The final round was a virtual onsite loop with multiple interviews covering data structures, system design, debugging, and Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical questions were practical but time-constrained, and the behavioural questions required specific examples using the STAR format.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a scalable URL shortening service and explain how you would handle high read traffic, collisions, database schema, expiration, and basic monitoring.
      Answer question
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2012

      Interview

      Got two phone screen interviews after I emailed the HR, the first one was nice and the guy on the other side asked some basic questions, like OO concept, differences between override and overload, time and space complexity of some sorting algorithms, then he gave me four hours to write a neat, bug-free doubly linked list followed with OO design. The second phone interviewer began with a project on my resume, I should have one copy in my hand but I didn't, so I try to recall what's there on my resume and answered his questions. Later on was a couple of tech questions, we worked through several ways to identify the most common character in a string, considering time and space complexity. Then he asked me to implement one of them. After that, it's about ten minutes to reach one hour, but he gave me another question on OO design, I could't make through but still got something for him, then he said he's got important things to do so we finished at one hour point. I thought I didn't do a good job at the second one, but an on-site interview comes after one week.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      OO design, without using database, design a IMDB senario: Simplified question: A film has one director and several actors, while a person can be both actor and director for one or many films, design the classed that can represent these situations. That is when showing a film, you have things like title, director, a bunch of actors. then showing a person, you need to show the movies he directed, and the movies he acted in, show nothing if there's no movie he has ever directed or acted in.
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      1

      Software Engineer Interview

      Jul 3, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      That moment when the interviewer asked about finding indices in an array for a target sum was wild — I had just tackled something identical while prepping on PracHub. The interview included a technical round with another question about designing an in-memory LRU cache and a behavioral question about meeting tight deadlines. After a smooth discussion, I was told I'd received an offer, which I happily accepted. Overall, the process felt pretty straightforward and not overly challenging.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Given an array of integers return the indices of two numbers summing to a target
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      Question 2

      Design an in-memory LRU cache with O(1) get and put operations
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      Question 3

      Tell me about a time you delivered under a very tight deadline
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 30, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      Interviewed for silicon team. Have only been asked about the domain specific knowledge in 1st round and system design in 2nd round and C coding in 3rd round. The interviews were 50 mins each.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Difference between igpu and dgpu
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