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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Reported Jun 2026

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: maximal square and good nodes

I interviewed for an SDE1 role at Amazon. The early process centered on DSA and, after applying, I went through two technical rounds with different coding challenges. The first included maximal square and merge intervals, which called for DP or matrix reasoning and careful interval manipulation. In the second, the questions shifted to something like counting good nodes in a binary tree, so I was…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
May 2026

Redistribution-Cost Algorithm and a Content-Moderation Coding OA

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
May 2026

HR Promised LeetCode, I Got System Design and an AI Debate

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
May 2026

A One-Hour Phone Screen With Two Sum Into Three Sum

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AmazonSoftware EngineerNew Grad
May 2026

A Bar Raiser and Three Coding Rounds

R1: Bar Raiser The first interview was the Bar Raiser. It contained only behavioral questions and no coding. R2 Coding: Minimum Point Consumption Across Multiple Programs Problem description A user has points from different programs, such as airline miles, credit-card points, and store points. Each program has a different redemption rate, and the rates change daily. The user wants to pay a fixed…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Apr 2026

an OA That Has You Debug a Password-Reset Repo with AI

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Apr 2026

Four Onsite Rounds From Ride-Hailing System Design to a Pub/Sub OOD Question

Phone Screen Coding: Merge products by category. Given a bunch of tuples representing two products being in the same category, with transitivity, find how many categories there are in the end and the size of each group. Classic Union-Find — I solved it with BFS instead and it also passed. Onsite (4 rounds) System Design: Design a ride-hailing app. The core focus was on high-frequency GPS writes f…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerSenior+
Reported Apr 2026

One-Day Loop After Three Uber Attempts

I didn't prepare for Amazon alone. What I brought into that loop came out of several earlier tries and a long stretch of studying. I went after Uber three separate times before this. The first time I got through only 1 of the 4 interviews, the second time 3 of 4, and the third time 2 of 4. By the time Amazon rolled around, I had put in plenty of hours grinding LeetCode-style problems. The thing t…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Mar 2026

OA in April, Offer After Four VO Rounds in July

Mass-applied at the end of January. Got the OA at the end of April: Coding question 1: there's an original version of this on the forum — a circular array of drone destinations (first and last connected end to end), find the shortest path. Coding question 2: AI debug. I picked Java. The problem was an actor + movie website. Roughly the functionality: users can follow actors, and an admin can add…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerNew Grad
Mar 2026

Four Rounds Ending with a Bar Raiser

round 1: behavioral questions + coding Behavioral questions: a time you made a decision with incomplete information; a time you disagreed with a teammate or your manager and how you handled it Coding: Given an array of strings, group together all words that are anagrams of each other and return the groups. The interviewer also asked me not to use the O(n·k log k) approach with sorted signatures.…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Feb 2026

Two Back-to-Back Rounds, BQ Plus OOD and a Course Schedule Twist

The Amazon intern interview was pretty classic. The two rounds were back to back, one hour each. The BQ part asked pretty classic stuff — mainly 3 common conflict scenarios, one dive deep, and one out-of-responsibility question, plus a relatively new question about using generative AI. There were quite a lot of follow-ups overall, but basically none of them were especially technical — my feeling…

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

A Two-Part OA with a WorkHoursRegister System Design Problem

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Feb 2026

A Heap-Based Rental Revenue Problem and a String Block-Partition Problem

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AmazonSoftware Engineer
Jan 2026

A Sparse Sliding Window Over Infinite Bags

The first online-assessment question was set in Amazon's financial team. An analyst had an infinite line of bags numbered from 1 onward. Information about the money in the bags was given as continuous, nonintersecting segments. Every bag inside a segment held the segment's stated amount, while every bag outside the supplied segments held zero. The goal was to choose exactly k consecutive bags tha…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Jan 2026

A Topological Sort the Interviewer Drew on the Spot

Round 1's interview and timeline are covered in a separate link, so I won't repeat that here. The interviewer described the question verbally: Amazon has a ton of services, and there are dependencies between them. When we take some of those services offline, figure out which other services end up affected. Clarifying questions: always, always do this first — get the conditions of the problem comp…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerSenior+
Jan 2026

Passed Coding, Failed on Database Internals

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Jan 2026

Two Back-to-Back Rounds, BQ Plus OOD and a Graph Problem

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Jan 2026

BQ Plus Two Coding Questions in One Virtual Onsite

I interviewed for an Amazon intern VO (virtual onsite) last week — it was BQ plus two coding questions. I've done a lot of Amazon intern interviews by now, and I'd already seen writeups for the other rounds and the OA before this one. A few of the BQ questions were ones I'd seen before. First, the BQ part: How do you handle difficulties at work How do you encourage your team when they hit a diffi…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Jan 2026

Robotics Charging Logic and Package Dimensions

I read a lot of interview reports here while preparing, so now I'm giving something back, especially since there seem to be so few Amazon Robotics posts. I interviewed in March this year for a summer 2026 internship. Two rounds, one hour each, both behavioral questions + LeetCode. Make sure to prepare the Leadership Principles well. Behavioral questions took half an hour in the manager round. Be…

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AmazonSoftware EngineerIntern
Jan 2026

Team Matching Before Two One-Hour Interviews

Behavioral (after OA): This year, there were two interviews, each 1 hour long. They team matched before the interview, so I ended up getting an offer under the team that interviewed me. Interviewers were the manager of that team and an L5 SWE (SWE II, one above entry level), both consisted of a technical leetcode-style question, then behavioral. Manager spent more time on behavioral, SWE spent mo…

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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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