# Amazon Software Engineer Interview Experience (2025) Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-software-engineer-interview-616f5a Source observed: 2026-11-04T23:28:04.459Z Last checked: 2026-11-04T23:28:04.459+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T13:17:22.76+00:00 --- # Amazon Software Development Engineer (SDE) Interview Guide We provide interview preparation resources, including company guides, interview experiences, questions, resumes, courses, practice, and coaching. This page contains one candidate-submitted Amazon Software Engineer interview experience. Aced was formerly Exponent. - [Expert guide](https://www.aced.io/guides/amazon-software-development-engineer-interview) - [62 interview experiences](https://www.aced.io/guides/amazon-software-development-engineer-interview/experiences) - [250 questions](https://www.aced.io/guides/amazon-software-development-engineer-interview/questions) - [482 resumes](https://www.aced.io/guides/amazon-software-development-engineer-interview/resumes) - [Back to all Amazon experiences](https://www.aced.io/guides/amazon-software-development-engineer-interview/experiences) Updated 3 days ago by Amazon candidates. ## Interview experience - **Company:** Amazon - **Role:** Software Engineer - **Level:** Mid Level / L4 - **Location:** United States - **Format:** Onsite - **Submission timing:** Submitted 3 months ago - **Interview timing:** 2 years ago - **Timespan:** 4 weeks - **Result:** Rejected - **Difficulty:** Moderate ## Interview process The candidate reported substantial focus on Amazon Leadership Principles (LP) questions in every round. Prepare enough stories for behavioral questions: interviewers may plan to ask two but end up asking a third. - Final round ## Interview rounds There were **4 questions across 1 round**. ### Final round — 4 questions Specific questions asked: 1. [Find the maximum subarray sum.](https://www.aced.io/questions/973) 2. [Design Ticketmaster](https://www.aced.io/questions/4318) 3. [Design a key-value store.](https://www.aced.io/questions/455) 4. [Find the k-th smallest and k-th largest element in a binary search tree (BST).](https://www.aced.io/questions/1162) ## Interview tips The candidate recommends practicing aloud with a timer, keeping a framework ready for every round, and asking the recruiter what each interviewer focuses on so examples can be tailored accordingly. ## Company culture The candidate described interviewers as collaborative and said they nudged discussion toward the user. The team appeared to value structured thinking over polish, and interviewers left time for questions at the end. ## Membership and contribution Membership unlocks the rest of this interview and more than **1.8k+ interview experiences**, with new experiences added weekly. - [Become a member](https://www.aced.io/upgrade?src=experience) - [Share your experience](https://www.aced.io/questions/contribute?src=experience) A **24-hour trial starts once your submission is approved**. ## More Amazon interview experiences - **SDE II Software Development Engineer — Amazon · Feb 2026** — Verified; 4 rounds; 7 questions. “I went in expecting the usual behavioral-first format, but in my loop they flipped it and opened with the coding question. The behavioral part still mattered, they just used the follow-ups to see if I actually knew my own work in detail.” [Read the full interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-software-engineer-interview-39a0db?returnPath=%2Fguides%2Famazon-software-development-engineer-interview%2Fexperiences) - **Software Engineer (L4) — Amazon · Dec 2025** — Verified; 4 rounds; 3 questions. “I said I deep dived on an AI project, and they immediately started asking what parameters I used to train the model and why I switched from one LLM to another. Even the behavioral round got super technical.” [Read the full interview](https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-software-engineer-interview-87ea12?returnPath=%2Fguides%2Famazon-software-development-engineer-interview%2Fexperiences) - **Software Engineer — Amazon · Oct 2026** — 2 rounds; 2 questions. “The process seems to be getting more rigorous than the past, with multiple technical rounds. 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