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Prepare for Amazon software development engineer interviews

Practice Amazon SDE coding, object-oriented design, system design, testing, and Leadership Principles communication using current official preparation material and independent technical scenarios.
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Officially confirmed

What Amazon says about its process

  1. 1Amazon says an online assessment with a coding test is an important part of the hiring process for many software development engineer roles.
  2. 2Official SDE preparation material covers programming, data structures, algorithms, coding, object-oriented design, databases, distributed computing, operating systems, and internet fundamentals.
  3. 3Experienced-role preparation may include an interview loop with multiple individual conversations covering coding, system design, and non-technical competencies tied to the Leadership Principles.
  4. 4Amazon expects syntactically correct, scalable, robust, and well-tested code, plus specific behavioral examples structured around actions, decisions, and measurable results.

Official sources

Last verified 2026-08-03. We update the page when official hiring information materially changes.

Role coverage

Roles this guide supports

Software Development EngineerSDE IISenior Software Development EngineerFront-End Engineer

Practice focus

Signals to rehearse

  • Coding without pseudocode
  • System and object-oriented design
  • Testing and edge cases
  • Scalability and reliability
  • Leadership Principles stories

Independent company-style practice

AI engineering scenarios relevant to Amazon

These are original EngMock exercises based on public engineering themes. They are not represented as official or leaked Amazon interview questions.

Hard

Design Amazon DynamoDB

Design a highly available, scalable, leaderless key-value store.

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Hard

Design Job Scheduler

Design a distributed job scheduler capable of handling recurring and one-time tasks at scale.

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Medium

Design a Notification System

Design a scalable notification service that sends emails, SMS, and push notifications to millions of users.

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Medium

Design an Online Shopping System

Design an online shopping domain model covering the product catalog, SKU inventory, shopping cart, order lines with snapshotted prices, a checkout flow, a payment boundary, and shipment state transitions.

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Hard

Design a Payment System

Design a reliable payment processing backend like Stripe or PayPal. Focus on correctness and idempotency.

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Hard

Design a Merchandise Ranking Backend

Design a browsing backend that ranks merchandise using views, cart additions, wishlists, and purchase events.

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Practice the underlying interview skills

Combine a live technical mock with the candidate-reported Question Bank, then use the evidence-based report to choose your next focused scenario.

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