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      Software Development Engineer II Interview

      Nov 14, 2015
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Dublin, Dublin
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Feb 2015

      Interview

      I was contacted by recruiter through my LinkedIn account. First I got a email with test and I had a 24 hours to solve it. It could be programmed in your prefered language. Second one - phone interview with 2 guys from Amazon (SW engineers): They started the interview with question like, what is different between hashmap and binary tree, what is better and why etc. Then coding issue - but i don't remember it well, but not so difficult. On-site - Dublin: 6 hour and each hour with different interviewer - 3 technical and 3 about your weakness and strongpoint, your big challenge, what did you do if you had a problem with your boss etc.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Email test: *The problem:* A logfile contains newline-terminated, space-separated text formatted like: <unix_timestamp> <hostname> <hostname> Example: 1366815793 quark garak 1366815795 brunt quark 1366815811 lilac garak Each line represents connection from a host (left) to another host (right) at a given time. The lines are *roughly* sorted by timestamp. They might be out of order by a maximum of 5 minutes. *Your task:* Implement a tool that parses such log files. The tool should both parse previously written log files by filename, or read from the standard input a stream of lines in the previously defined format. The script will output: * a list of hostnames that connected to a given (configurable) host during the last hour * a list of hostnames that received connections from a given (configurable) host during the last hour * the hostname that generated most connections in the last hour * the hostname that received most connections in the last hour Expect the number of loglines and hostnames to be very high. Consider implementing a CPU and memory-efficient solution. On-site: - How would you implement T9 ? - You have a e-shop and you must implement the shop card. The e-shop has some bonuses that if you buy for example 3 same stuff one is free, if you buy this stuff there is 25% free etc.
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      Other Software Development Engineer II Interview Reviews for Amazon

      Software Development Engineer II Interview

      May 9, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      Declined offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2026

      Interview

      There were a total of 2 rounds: The first round was with an SDE II on Data Structures/Algo - Leet code questions mainly The second rounds was with an SDM Behavioral/System Design - Leadership principles and past work experience impact.

      Software Development Engineer II Interview

      Feb 10, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2026

      Interview

      Recruiter explicitly mentioned that the Technical Phone Screen interview did not contain any Behavioral question but the interviewer definitely asked 3 behavioral questions. The coding problem was utterly garbage, it was a pretty trivial problem that anyone that knows DFS would be able to solve. That is not appropriate for a SDE 2 role. Not even useful to demonstrate candidate skills PS: They care a lot more about what you've accomplished than whatever you can accomplish based on your skills

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      1. Tell me about a time when you had to meet a tight deadline 2. Tell me about a time when you had to do more than what you were required to do 3. Tell me about a time where you made a significant impact on a customer
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      Software Development Engineer II Interview

      Oct 22, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sep 2025

      Interview

      5 rounds of interviews 1. OA (2 Medium Hard Questions along with some Work Related Assessment which tested design related concepts) 2. HLD 3. DSA 4. LLD 5. Bar Raiser Technically, the questions were of medium difficulty and with good polish, you should be able to solve these questions. The main challenge in Amazon is of the Leadership Principles which involve citing real work experience in the STAR format.
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