Amazon 評估測試題目逐部分解析

Amazon's own prep page for its SDE II online assessment makes a promise that should change how you prepare. The coding challenge "is NOT meant to be a mystery," and Amazon publishes the topic list so candidates are not left guessing. The page lays out the format plainly. Two coding questions in 90 minutes, a short system design section, and a work styles section, with Amazon recommending you reserve two hours for the whole thing.

That changes what "Amazon assessment test questions and answers" should mean. The questions you will actually see are drawn fresh from published topic areas, and the answers are yours to produce on the day. Amazon's university SDE prep page adds that your browser usage is logged during the coding assessment. What you can know in advance is the structure of each section and what it is scoring. This guide goes through both, track by track, using only what Amazon publishes on amazon.jobs.

Key takeaways

• Amazon runs different online assessments (OAs) for different roles. The SDE II OA has coding, system design and work styles sections. The university SDE OA adds a work simulation for full-time roles in most countries. Field Manager candidates take a separate 60-minute assessment heavy on metrics.
• Amazon publishes the coding topics and a two-question practice test, so leaked question lists are the weakest prep available.
• Work styles sections ask how you prefer to work, and Amazon says they need no studying. Spend your preparation on the coding and metrics sections, and on the Leadership Principles stories the interview loop will ask for.

What is on the Amazon online assessment?

The Amazon online assessment depends on the role, and Amazon's careers site documents each version separately. The table below collects the sections and timings Amazon states on its own prep pages.

For the SDE II version, Amazon's prep page is direct about who takes it. "Everyone who wants to work as an SDE II at Amazon must complete an OA." You get seven days from the date the link is sent, and only the coding challenge is timed. For full-time university SDE roles, Amazon says the OA will be in one or two parts depending on the country the role is in, so check the email that delivers your link before you plan your time.

Can you find the real Amazon assessment questions and answers?

You cannot find the real Amazon assessment questions in advance, and Amazon's prep pages explain why trying is a poor use of time. The SDE II page publishes the list of coding topics and then says "the actual questions will be a deep dive into a couple of these areas." A memorized answer covers one problem. The topic list covers the space the problems are drawn from.

Amazon also describes the conditions you will answer under. On the university SDE prep page, Amazon says you may use publicly accessible online resources such as the Java Developer Kit or the Standard Template Library, but not sites that require a login or private repositories. It warns that "your browser usage is logged," and asks candidates to avoid copying and pasting. "We expect this to be your own code." Amazon's interview rules point the same way. ITPro reported in March 2025 on Amazon guidance asking candidates not to use generative AI tools during interviews unless explicitly permitted, adding that "failure to adhere to these guidelines may result in disqualification from the recruitment process."

The legitimate preview is the one Amazon offers. The university SDE page lets you review two practice questions through its Online Assessment Practice Test, which Amazon says is not scored. Take it early, so the format holds no surprises on the day.

How should you prepare for the Amazon coding assessment?

Prepare for the Amazon coding assessment by practicing the published topics in the environment Amazon names. The SDE II page tells candidates to "expect to be asked to write syntactically correct code," with no pseudo code, and suggests getting comfortable coding within HackerRank if you are rusty without an IDE. Code that compiles in your head but not in the editor costs time you do not have.

Pace matters as much as knowledge. Two questions in 90 minutes on the SDE II OA leaves roughly 45 minutes per problem, including reading, testing and edge cases. Practice in timed blocks of that length rather than open-ended sessions. The university SDE page advises that if you get stuck on a problem, you move to the next one and revisit it.

Amazon's university page also says "No Amazon-specific knowledge is needed to complete the OA successfully." That is worth taking literally. The coding section tests data structures, algorithms and clean code. Our guide to practicing for a CoderPad interview covers a habit that transfers to the later live coding rounds, which is narrating your approach before you type.

How do you answer the Amazon work styles assessment?

Answer the Amazon work styles assessment honestly, and do not study for it. Amazon says so directly. Its SDE II prep page describes the work styles questions as multiple choice, says there is no need to prepare or study for them, and says Amazon wants a sense of how you like to work. The university SDE page says the section is built around the Leadership Principles, asks you to choose statements that represent your work style, and needs no practice.

The same SDE II page frames the whole OA as a way to learn about "your systems thinking, leadership styles, and preferred ways of working." Every track in the table above includes a work styles section, so Amazon uses it for engineers, scientists and operations managers alike. It is also short, at about 10 minutes on the SDE II OA and 8 minutes on average in the Field Manager Assessment.

What does deserve preparation is the next stage. The Amazon interview loop assigns Leadership Principles to interviewers who ask for real stories from your past. That is where knowing which project shows ownership, and which one shows you disagreeing and then committing, pays off.

What is in the Amazon Field Manager Assessment?

The Field Manager Assessment (FMA) is a 60-minute evaluation that, in Amazon's words, measures "critical thinking, people management skills," and how you have applied the Leadership Principles. It has five sections. Working with the Team, Working with Metrics, Coworker Conversations, Previous Experiences and Work Styles. Amazon notes that Coworker Conversations applies only to people manager roles that require English-language proficiency.

Working with Metrics is the section to prepare for. Candidates spend an average of 30 minutes on it, the longest of the five, and Amazon's section notes give it a 60-minute time limit and say it must be done in one sitting. Its prep page says the key to success lies in proper preparation, "particularly for the Working with Metrics section." Amazon links a math worksheet on the same page and asks candidates to have "a reliable calculator, scratch paper, and pencil/pen" ready before starting. Work through the worksheet with a timer running, because rates, percentages and throughput under time pressure are where operations candidates lose points.

The Previous Experiences section asks how you have applied the Leadership Principles before, so know the specific situations you would draw on before you sit down.

What happens after the Amazon online assessment?

What happens next depends on your track, and Amazon states the SDE II timeline outright. You will be notified within two days whether you are moving forward. If you are not, Amazon says you will be "encouraged to practice and re-apply in six months." For full-time university SDE roles, Amazon emails you after each section to say whether you will move to the next step, so check your spam folder.

Passing the OA moves you into the interview loop, where the questions shift from code and self-report to spoken stories that interviewers probe. That is the part of Amazon's process a practice tool can actually rehearse with you. Four-Leaf's mock interviews include a Bar Raiser round on the Software Engineer track, built around leadership principles. When an answer claims a result without proof, or credits it to "we", the follow-up question asks what the number was and which part of it was yours.

What is overrated

Leaked question lists are the most overrated Amazon OA prep. They teach you one solution to one problem, and Amazon says the real questions go deep into a couple of published topic areas. Practice the topic, and the specific problem stops mattering.

Memorizing the Leadership Principles word for word is the second. The loop asks for real stories from your past, and a recited definition is not one. The STAR method guide covers how to shape one.

The playbook

1. Open the prep page for your exact track on amazon.jobs and note the sections and timings it lists. They differ between SDE II, university SDE, internships and Field Manager.
2. Take the Online Assessment Practice Test if your track offers it, at least a week before the real one.
3. Practice the published coding topics in timed 45-minute blocks, writing code that compiles without help from an IDE.
4. Answer the work styles section as yourself, without studying for it, and spend that time writing down five stories mapped to Leadership Principles for the loop.
5. If you are a Field Manager candidate, work through Amazon's math worksheet with a calculator and a timer.
6. Say your Leadership Principles stories out loud and have someone, or something, ask you what the number was.

Where this is heading

Amazon publishes a lot about its online assessment. The topics, the timings, the rules on copying and the practice test are all on amazon.jobs, which leaves very little that a question bank can add.

What Amazon cannot publish is your part. The code you write in 90 minutes, the way you describe how you work, and the stories that back it up in the loop are things only you can prepare. Do that preparation out loud, before the link arrives.

Originally published on the Four-Leaf blog.