Amazon SDE Intern Interview Experience (India, 2026)

Role: Software Development Engineer Intern

Application route: Applied online / Campus hiring

Location: India

Overall difficulty: Medium

I appeared for the Amazon SDE Intern process during my 3rd year. The process focused heavily on DSA, problem-solving, CS fundamentals, and behavioral questions.

Round by Round Experience

Online Assessment | Coding questions: 2

The OA had multiple sections, including coding and behavioral/aptitude-style questions.

The coding section had two problems. The pattern was around arrays/trees and hashing, with the questions requiring an efficient solution rather than brute force.

One of the reported question patterns was searching in a row-wise and column-wise sorted matrix. Another common set included cloning a linked list with next and random pointers.

Technical Interview 1 | Difficulty: Medium

The interview started with a short introduction and project discussion before moving to DSA.

One problem was based on a binary tree, where the interviewer asked about finding the path between two nodes. A follow-up variation involved calculating the number of turns in that path.

The discussion then moved to complexity and how the solution could be optimized.

Technical Interview 2 | Difficulty: Medium

The second round included another DSA problem along with behavioral questions.

The interviewer also asked questions related to my projects and how I handled technical challenges. Behavioral questions were answered using examples from academic/project experiences.

The main focus throughout the process was not only getting the answer but clearly explaining the approach, complexity, and possible optimizations.