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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 23 questions · ~223 min
Find Free Time SlotsMedium
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Merge ordered Amazon Advertising meeting intervals and return every positive-length free interval within a workday.

time managementSchedulingAmazon Advertising
Check Palindrome StringEasy
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Use a two-pointer string scan to determine whether a string reads the same forward and backward.

RecursionStringsData StructuresAmazon Advertising
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System Design12 questions · ~116 min
Design a Real-Time Bid AgentHard
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Design an agentic ad bidding system that makes real-time bid adjustments at very high scale with strict latency and reliability needs.

Feature StoreRetrievalModel ServingAmazon Advertising
Monitor Drift in Ad RankingHard
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Design monitoring for a large-scale ad ranking system, with feature drift, training-serving skew, and rollback handled as first-class concerns.

Feature StoreFeature DriftModel ServingAmazon Advertising
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Execution4 questions · ~39 min
Your Strengths and WeaknessesEasy
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Give a specific, self-aware account of your strengths and weaknesses, supported by relevant examples and improvement actions.

Trade-offsSuccess CriteriaExecutionAmazon Advertising
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Behavioral & Leadership8 questions · ~77 min
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More topics3 questions · ~29 min
Shard Databases and HAHard
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Tests experience with sharding, reliability, and operational excellence in large systems.

database managementhigh availabilityAmazon Advertising
Jitter and Clock GatingMedium
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Tests knowledge of timing behavior and mitigation techniques in systems.

NetworkingAmazon Advertising
Choosing a Database TechnologyMedium
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Evaluates your ability to select the right database technology based on requirements and tradeoffs.

Amazon Advertising
Hands-on SQL practiceWrite and run real queries in the editor. 3 drills · ~30 min
Analyze Customer Purchase Trends with Window FunctionsEasy
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Calculate the monthly spending trends for customers using window functions and joins.

The Home DepotAvisoHewlett Packard Enterprise
Inner Join vs Outer JoinEasy
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Demonstrate how INNER JOIN and FULL OUTER JOIN handle matching and unmatched rows.

JoinsData Wranglingnull valuesRocketNeenOpaleBay
Top 10 Customers by SpendEasy
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Find EarthCam's top 10 customers by total spend using GROUP BY, SUM, ORDER BY, and LIMIT.

RankingGroup ByAggregationsEarthcamAmazon AdvertisingFetch
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