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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview obtained through a hackathon with a friendly online coding round

I got the opportunity through an Amazon hackathon, and the process began with an online interview. The interviewer was friendly and easy to talk to, which helped because the session started with a simple introduction before moving into the questions. The coding portion felt medium difficulty overall. It was not the most intimidating format, but it still required me to explain myself clearly while…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview with an emergency reschedule and four-part final loop

After recruiter communication, scheduling moved smoothly except for an interviewer emergency that required a reschedule. I eventually reached the final loop, which had four back-to-back technical interviews. Each covered a different area: data structures and algorithms, object-oriented design, system design, and behavioral questions tied to Amazon's Leadership Principles. The coding interviews we…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview with a team-aligned pair of one-hour technical sessions

I received an online assessment first, and then the process moved quickly to interviews aligned with the team I was being considered for. I had two interviews on the same day, each about an hour. Both mixed behavioral questions about past experiences and how I had worked with technical questions. The difficulty felt lighter than what I had heard about similar loops. The day felt manageable becaus…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: LP-focused OA loop

I went through an OA-style loop that focused heavily on a weakness of mine: LP. The coding questions were not my main concern because they were relatively straightforward LeetCode-style problems. The interviewers spent about half an hour on linear-programming scenarios and another half hour on coding questions in the same general LeetCode style. That pattern came up across two rounds, so LP was n…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: systems prompts and declined offer

After a recruiter-style start, I went straight into a technical process that felt brutal because the hard topics kept piling up. One design prompt asked me to work through a concurrent restaurant waitlist and seating system, which meant reasoning about correctness and coordination instead of reaching for a quick answer. Next came a weighted binary-grid pathfinding problem that tested my algorithm…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer Interview Experience: a virtual onsite across coding, system design, and behavioral work

I began with an online assessment, then moved into a virtual onsite with multiple rounds. The onsite felt like a continuous loop rather than isolated checks. I kept switching between coding, system design, and behavioral questions. The interviewers also explored my prior experience and projects, so I had to explain my background and decisions as well as solve questions. The difficulty felt tough,…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: month-long wait before final round

I began with an online assessment that combined technical questions with managerial and behavioral components. Then I waited about a month for an online final-round interview. The final round also mixed technical and behavioral questions. It felt like they were judging both how I solved problems and how I communicated through my experience. The structure itself was straightforward, but I kept hav…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

A HackerRank OA With an AI-Assisted Bug-Hunting Question

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Domain Weight Calculation, No Time to Dry-Run

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Distracted Interviewer Nitpicks a Binary Search

First off, the interviewer was 30 minutes late. The scheduled time was already inconvenient, and then he pulls this on top of it. He started by going over my resume, and we talked for over half an hour. The interviewer was obviously distracted the whole time, kept asking me to re-explain things I had already explained, and wasted a lot of time going back and forth like that. Then out of nowhere h…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

SDE I New Grad Loop in Canada, Offer the Monday After the Final Interview

Hey everyone! I recently graduated with a CS degree from a school in Canada (I'm an international student) and ended up with an SDE I offer from Amazon. Here is how the process went, hopefully it's useful to somebody. Timeline My application went in during the last days of January 2026. Nobody referred me. In early April the online coding assessment arrived in my inbox, and I sent it back after t…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerSenior+
Reported Jun 2026

Changing Requirements in the LLD Round and a Distributed Cache Design

I've been applying to SDE-2 roles at MAANG-tier companies for the better part of a year, and it was rough going. I collected plenty of instant rejections right at the start, and that made it clear I had to prepare much harder. On the DSA side I mostly stuck to the LeetCode Premium MAANG checklist. My LLD prep came from Medium articles and YouTube channels. Reading past interview experiences for t…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Jun 2026

OA, a Spam Folder Scare, and Four Back-to-Back Onsite Rounds

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Coding, System Design, and BQ in One 55-Minute Call

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Two OA Questions: Drone Routing and an AI-Assist Debugging Round

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

OA With a Movie-Watchlist Fullstack Debug Challenge

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jun 2026

Five Onsite Rounds, LPs Woven Into Every One

Preparing for Amazon took me a good amount of time, and threads on this forum helped a ton, so I'm back to turn in my homework. Before I get into it: the biggest difference between Amazon and other companies is that Leadership Principles aren't a separate round — they're baked into every single round. Across my five rounds, every one of them started with twenty to thirty minutes of LP questions b…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview: AI coding assessment

My Amazon process began with online tasks before the more traditional interviews. The DSA portion used something like a house-robber II problem, so it felt more focused on dynamic-programming trade-offs than a simple brute-force solution. The assessment also had an AI-based coding round. I was given a code repository and an AI model with guardrails, then had to work from failing test cases to und…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview: brain teasers and OA rejection

The process began with online recruitment quizzes or an OA, and those early steps set the tone. One path was packed with brain-teaser-style questions that did not match the job I was applying for. It made the process feel disrespectful of my time. In another attempt at the same general funnel stage, I submitted OA solutions and received a rejection a few days later. That assessment was more typic…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: LRU cache implementation details

After I cleared the initial steps, I had a phone-screen-style discussion that ran longer than expected and went deeply into implementation. The interviewer pressed me on an LRU cache: how I would combine a hashmap and doubly linked list, and how eviction would work. System-design examples on eviction policies had helped me prepare, so I could explain the reasoning instead of reciting a solution.…

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What are interview experiences?

An interview experience is a candidate's own account of a hiring loop — not a question bank entry. It tells you the shape of the process: how many rounds there were, what each round actually tested, how long the gaps between them ran, and what the recruiter said at the end. That context is the part a question list cannot give you.

How to read them

Weight recent write-ups more heavily — interview loops change, often within a year. Read several for the same company and role rather than one: a single account tells you what one interviewer asked, while five tell you what the bar is. Note the outcome badge too, since a rejection write-up usually explains the gap far more precisely than an offer one.

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