Amazon Interview Questions (2026)

184 questions across 12 categories · Updated June 2026

Amazon interviews are structured around their 14 Leadership Principles. Every round — including technical rounds — expects you to demonstrate principles like Customer Obsession, Ownership, and Deliver Results through behavioral examples. Technical rounds cover DSA and system design, with a strong emphasis on scalable backend architecture.

Algorithms

Maximum Product Subarray

Product of Array Except Self

Count Primes

Longest Palindrome

Decode Ways II

Serialize and Deserialize BST

Number of Islands

Shortest Path in Binary Matrix

Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

Merge k Sorted Lists

Counting Bits

Maximum Swap

Cheapest Flights Within K Stops

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock (I)

Analytical

How do you prioritize tasks when you have multiple deadlines?

How do you prioritize time management when addressing customer problems?

Can you describe a time you used data to solve a problem?

Tell me about a time you used data to solve a problem?

What were the questions related to your previous company and market strategies?

How do you prioritize tasks when facing multiple deadlines?

Behavioral

How would you handle an angry or dissatisfied customer?

What are your greatest strengths?

What will you do if you don't know the answer to a customer query?

How do you handle stress and pressure during busy periods?

Describe a time you had to work with a difficult team member.

What is your biggest professional failure and what did you learn?

Going Above and Beyond

How do you prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment?

Dealing with Unexpected Downtime

Tell me about your previous job experience and responsibilities.

Can you describe a challenging project you worked on previously?

Tell me about a time you failed

Describe a project where you solved a difficult challenge

Most Significant Failure as a Leader

Dealing with Lack of Resources

Handling Team Member Conflict Over Strategy

What motivates you to perform well at work?

Experience with Monolith to Microservices

What would you do if you saw a colleague violating company policy?

Why should we hire you for this position?

Can you describe an instance when you took initiative without manager approval?

What is the most challenging problem you solved recently?

How do you describe a challenging project you worked on previously?

Describe your final year project and the key skills you developed.

Why Amazon? How does its culture align with your values?

Handling Repetitive Tasks

What Demotivates You

Describe a time you disagreed with a manager.

What motivates you to do your best work in a professional setting?

How do you define success in your career?

How do you apply the STAR method to answer behavioral questions?

Describe a challenging project from your previous company and how you solved it.

Why do you want to work at Amazon specifically?

What motivates you to do your best work?

Tell me about yourself and your relevant experience.

How do you demonstrate alignment with Amazon's Leadership Principles?

What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Your Approach to Risk Assessment

Handling a Security Vulnerability

Handling Last-Minute Requirement Change

Reacting to a Crisis

Dealing with Ambiguity

Coding

How do you add two numbers represented by linked lists?

How would you rotate a matrix by 90 degrees in place?

Can you find a triplet such that a squared equals b squared plus c squared?

How do you implement a stack with push pop and min operations in constant time?

Find the maximum sum subarray such that no elements are consecutive.

Given two numbers represented by linked lists, how do you return their sum?

How do you reverse a linked list in groups of size k?

How can you implement a stack with push, pop, and min operations in constant time?

How do you convert a Binary Tree to a Doubly Linked List?

Can you find a triplet where a squared equals b squared plus c squared?

How would you implement a stack with push, pop, and min operations in constant time?

How do you convert a binary tree into a doubly linked list?

What is the strategy to reverse a linked list in groups of size k?

Data Structures