retail, devices, and AWS
What will Amazon ask you? Candidates who describe the loop in public usually mention behavioral stories, coding or functional work, system design, and a conversation about how you operate. This page opens the generator on Amazon. Choose a round and you get ten commonly reported prompts, each with a short approach and a link to the same prompt in the interview-questions hub.
Amazon’s public leadership principles are the spine of the behavioral loop. Coding and design still matter, especially for SDE roles, but stories that do not map to a principle tend to fall flat. These prompts use the public principles as practice themes, not as a transcript.
Public candidate writeups usually describe a recruiter screen, a coding or functional round, and a loop of behavioral interviews where each story is expected to land on a leadership principle.
Amazon works in retail, devices, and AWS. The drills use public themes from products such as Amazon.com and AWS, and the published value “Customer Obsession”. The wording is a practice prompt. Your answer still has to be a story, a design, or a solution you can explain out loud.
Write the principle in the margin of the story before you practice it. If the story does not need that principle, pick another story.
For a software development engineer loop, start with the round that is shakiest. Use “Ownership” as a margin note on behavioral and culture prompts: if the story does not need that idea, choose another story. The other forty Amazon prompts are on the full interview questions page.
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10 commonly reported behavioral questions for Amazon.
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Behavioral
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How to approach. Open with the situation in one breath, then stay on your actions. At Amazon, name the tradeoff and tie the result to “Insist on the Highest Standards”.
Behavioral
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How to approach. Keep the story under two minutes. End with what changed for the user of a product like AWS, not with a moral.
Behavioral
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How to approach. Use a real miss if you have one. Amazon interviews reward the repair and the specific check you added afterward.
Behavioral
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How to approach. Say who disagreed with you and what you did with their objection. Do not flatten the story into “we aligned.”
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How to approach. Put a number in the result — latency, revenue, tickets, or time — and admit what the number does not prove.
Behavioral
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How to approach. If you influenced without authority, name the ask, the resistance, and the artifact you left behind.
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How to approach. State the assumption you tested before you acted. That is the part an Amazon interviewer can follow.
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How to approach. Credit the teammate whose work you improved, then describe the standard you held and how you showed it.
Behavioral
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How to approach. Start from the user of Amazon.com, then the constraint, then your call. Skip the company history.
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How to approach. Practice the “no” out loud. Include the shortcut you refused and the slower path you chose instead.
Stay on behavioral if stories are the gap. Switch to coding if the screen is soon and your narration is rusty. System design is the round to practice stopping: one API, one bottleneck, one thing you will not build. Role is where you show judgment for the job. Culture is where “Customer Obsession” has to cost something in the story, or it sounds memorized.
Write the principle in the margin of the story before you practice it. If the story does not need that principle, pick another story. When ten prompts are not enough, the Amazon interview questions page has the other forty, and the question generator can switch you to another company without an account.
Choose a round — behavioral, coding, system design, role, or culture — and read the ten commonly reported Amazon prompts. Each one has a short approach and a link to that prompt on the Amazon interview questions page. Shuffle if you are remembering the order instead of the question. Copy if you want the list in a notes doc. No account is required.
Write the principle in the margin of the story before you practice it. If the story does not need that principle, pick another story. Public accounts of the loop usually look like this: Public candidate writeups usually describe a recruiter screen, a coding or functional round, and a loop of behavioral interviews where each story is expected to land on a leadership principle.
These are commonly reported practice prompts for Amazon, built from public interview themes in retail, devices, and AWS and from the published value “Customer Obsession”. Use them to rehearse a story, a design, or a solution you can defend. A specific interview on a specific day can ask a neighbor of the prompt.
Luna is not affiliated with Amazon. Amazon did not write these prompts and did not review this page. The generator is a free practice tool.
The full Amazon set, all fifty prompts, is on the Amazon interview questions page.