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      Software Development Engineer Intern Interview

      9 Mar 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience

      Other Software Development Engineer Intern interview reviews for Amazon

      Software Development Engineer Intern Interview

      17 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Vancouver, BC
      Accepted offer
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2013

      Interview

      I applied through the Recruiter and got an email at the end of January for scheduling Two phone interviews. I postponed once as it got conflicted with one of my semester exams. On the rescheduled day I was contacted by the two interviewers promptly and here is what happened.Both the Interviews are technical in nature and I know that its my piece of cake as I am very strong in CS Basics. First interviewer asked me of how I go about finding the element occurred odd number of times in an array where each element has occurred even number of times except one. I discussed the Hashtable approachh, Sorting approach and an XOR approach. He imposed many many constraints as I gave the approcahes such as my system cannot afford XOR or Not enough Space etc..He asked me to implement Sorting Approach and it was out of time. I was able to explain it by inplace sorting such as Quick sort and he asked me to send the code by 2 hours after the second interview. Since I did 't have time for Quick sort implementation. I took some code on Net for Quick sort and implemented my main logic of finding the odd element and sent him before the stipulated time. I felt that I did reasonably good(infact above Average) in my first interview. The second interviewer is more cool and friendly. He asked me about Vector Datatype and I stumbled in that , I somehow covered wth array or some stuff. The second Question is how to go about Reversing a string. I also nailed it as I am prepared for it. He was also very satisfied with my approach. The third Question was a situational Question where He told that he has an application with almost billions of Web Pages and each web page may or may not contain a email Address. My application needs to be doing this in matter of milli seconds. How do you do it? I gave many approaches as follows. 1. We can use Regular expressions to get the Email address very fastly from the Web Page.( He also appreciated my approach) 2. I secondly told to implemet Multi Threading to process the pages parallely.( Thsi also impressed hiim) 3 Thirdly I told him to divide the pages into bloack so as to reduce the number of requests between client and server for fetching web pages. 4. I also told him about the levels of pages to be brought so that once a page block is brog=ught and a thread is assigned to it the CPU mau actually go and brigmore pages so as to reduce the latency of communication. 5. FInally , if the Server is distributed, we can deploy the same code to many clients and complete the processing very fastly. I asked for the feedback for both the interviewers and first one denied it and second one told me directlt that I did Very very well.. I waited for 2 weeks but I didn't hear from them. I mailed HR asking for status and in a couple of days I got a rejection. I was puzzled to see the result after doing so well in the interview. I have no clue of what happened and completely disheartened . All my hard work went in drain just by a mall. I AM LOST
      2
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC)

      Interview

      One online assessment and one virtual interview included a coding round and leadership principle questions; overall, the process was fairly straightforward and not overly challenging for me throughout the experience.

      Software Development Engineer Intern Interview

      14 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Bellevue, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon (Bellevue, WA)

      Interview

      2 rounds: 1st round: 3 behaviorals: Tell me about yourself, tell me about a time you used Gen AI, tell me about a time you faced a problem in one of your experiences Leetcode similar to LRU Cache but a variant 2nd round: 3 more behaviorals; tell me about yourself, a specific experience in my internship, a time you disagreed with manager/peer on a project

      Software Development Engineer Intern Interview

      23 Mar 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      Pretty difficult OA didn't need to get full score. One round technical interview with SDE. Interview was pretty easy, most people I knew at school and friends ended up passing the interview. Took about 1 month to hear back after interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Know how to implement DFS and BFS well
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