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      Software Development Engineering Intern Interview

      Mar 27, 2013
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Seattle, WA

      Other Software Development Engineering Intern interview reviews for Amazon

      Software Development Engineering Intern Interview

      Sep 30, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012

      Interview

      A friend of mine submitted my resume to a hiring manager and I got a phone call about a week later to set up a phone interview. The phone interview involved two different people, both of whom went straight into the technical questioning. There was none of the typical interview banter or "what's your greatest weakness" sort of vagueness. The second guy didn't even have inflection in his voice. He was just a cold, hard, questioning robot... creepy! About halfway through the phone call I was asked to sit down at my computer and log on to a website where the interviewer watched me write some code to solve a problem he'd specified (printing a series of numbers to a console in a spiral pattern). It was a bit difficult since every time I stopped to think he'd ask me what I was thinking. After several minutes of thinking out loud and typing nervously I managed to complete the problem. After the online portion of the interview, I was given homework (see "Most Difficult or Unexpected Question"), and told to submit it to them by the end of the day! I had a hot date with tickets to a show that evening, but as the hours went by it became clear that I was going to have to cancel to work on the interview problem. Frustrated and bitter, I resigned to submit what I had by midnight along with documentation on the missing aspects of my solution. A few days went by and I heard nothing. I still had some questions about the internship that I didn't have a chance to ask over the phone, so I e-mailed my recruiter. She replied the next day with a form letter telling me that they'd decided to pursue other candidates.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Recreate the StringBuilder class in C++ from the ground up.
      Answer question
      8
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)

      Interview

      1 hour round consisting of 4 - 5 behaviorals questions and then a technical question (lc - medium). Should emphasize leadership principles for behavioral and technical question is completely interviewer dependent but it is usually a tagged question.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Most common 3 website sequence.
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      Software Development Engineering Intern Interview

      May 9, 2025
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      The Software Development Engineering Intern interview process includes an online application, followed by coding assessments, technical phone or video interviews, and sometimes a final round with behavioral and problem-solving questions.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Two Leetcode questions, both of them are medium.
      Answer question

      Software Development Engineering Intern Interview

      Dec 25, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon

      Interview

      I had two Leetcode style questions to solve in 70 mins, after I finished I had to take personality questions which were exhausting. The first question was something similar to leetcode 1402.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      The Second question was something like this: In an Array there are some numbers: numbers that are considered true values, a number that is the the some of those true values and outlier/s. write an algorithm to find the biggest outlier (there might be 2 outliers in the array).
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