Amazon System Design Interview Questions
These are the 8 Amazon system design interview questions AceOffer has reconstructed from candidate reports, sorted by how often each was reported. Design a Pizza Ordering System (OOD) leads at 5×. Every question shows when it was last reported; the catalog refreshes monthly.
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Key facts
- •8 distinct system design questions indexed
- •25 candidate reports across those questions
- •Most reported: Design a Pizza Ordering System (OOD) — 5× (last seen September 2026)
- •Refreshed monthly · last updated October 2026
Which Amazon rounds ask system design questions?
The Amazon rounds below are where these questions come up. Counts are distinct questions, not times asked.
Most reported: Design Amazon Locker (OOD) — 5×
Which Amazon system design questions get asked most?
Sorted by candidate-report frequency. Click any question for the full breakdown.
| Question | Round | Reported | Last seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design a Pizza Ordering System (OOD) Design a pizza ordering system as an object-oriented design (OOD) exercise, and implement it in code. What the reports say: - Five… | System Design | 5× | September 2026 |
| Design Amazon Locker (OOD) Design Amazon Locker: lockers of several sizes hold packages until customers collect them. What the reports say: - Five candidates name this… | System Design | 5× | August 2026 |
| Restaurant Waitlist and Table Assignment (OOD) Design a restaurant waitlist and table assignment, as an OOD exercise you implement in code. Requirements from one phone-screen report: - Waiting… | System Design | 3× | September 2026 |
| Pub/Sub and Package Notification System (OOD) An OOD round on publish/subscribe, reported in two shapes: - Package notifications (phone screen): when a package's status updates, notify the customer;… | System Design | 3× | May 2026 |
| Shopping Cart and Checkout Price Engine (OOD) Build the checkout price engine for an e-commerce platform, as an object-oriented design. Given a cart, compute the final price by applying… | System Design | 3× | October 2026 |
| Library Management System (Multi-Branch) Design a library management system spanning multiple libraries: borrow, pick up and return books, where loans of the same book must not… | System Design | 2× | August 2026 |
| Design a Distributed Job Scheduler (Exactly-Once) Design a distributed, cron-style job scheduler like Airflow. What the reports say: - In an SDE-2 loop, this was the bar raiser's… | System Design | 2× | September 2026 |
| Deck of Cards: Shuffle and Sort (OOD) Implement the following in-place functions for a deck of standard playing cards: 1. Shuffle: given an arbitrary deck of cards, return it… | System Design | 2× | August 2026 |
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