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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with three coding problems

The Amazon interview split its emphasis between coding and leadership principles. I handled three coding problems: two medium and one hard. They assessed correctness, data-structures-and-algorithms use, code quality, and how clearly I explained my approach. The behavioral questions focused heavily on leadership principles. I used STAR to set out the situation, task, actions, and result, with meas…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: difficult communication and teamwork evaluation

The process felt organized and professional from start to finish. The interviews covered my technical background, software engineering experience, problem solving, and communication. The interviewers were friendly and seemed interested in how I would work on a team as well as what I could build. The questions went beyond puzzle solving into judgment, collaboration, and explaining my thinking clea…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with two-day four-round loop

After an OA, I reached an intense four-round loop that ran over more than two consecutive days. The coding included two LeetCode questions, one easy question numbered 680 and one medium question, plus an object-oriented design interview. The other rounds were more behavioral. One was entirely behavioral and lasted about an hour. Across the loop, it felt like they were evaluating both problem solv…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with linked-list screen

I was glad I went through the Amazon process, even though I eventually declined the offer. The phone screen began with two easy technical questions: reversing a linked list and explaining the difference between TCP and UDP. The final round included a behavioral question about project ownership. I felt more prepared because I had access to a company-specific question bank on PracHub, and my confid…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with back-to-back DSA rounds

I had two back-to-back interviews, first with a hiring manager and then with an engineer from the team. Each lasted about 60 minutes. For roughly the first 15 minutes, I answered behavioral questions, and the rest was DSA. That split made the mental switch obvious. I had to move from narrative examples and decision making to DSA problem solving for most of each session. The process felt difficult…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview with five final interviews

My process began with a recruiter screen and then a one-hour technical screen split between behavioral questions and coding. It immediately tested whether I could communicate while solving. The final loop had five interviews. In the first three, I solved data-structures-and-algorithms problems in a shared coding environment while explaining my approach, then answered behavioral questions about Am…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: graduates OA with extreme first-task timing

I received an OA invite for a graduates program, and the timing was extreme. The first programming challenge had such a reduced window that I spent much of it reading and understanding the prompt rather than building a solution. The second test was more reasonable. The experience was very difficult for me, and I did not move forward to an offer. The bottleneck was not only coding ability. It was…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: progressive DSA OA and split Zoom interview

After applying, I received a virtual OA with several DSA problems that began easy and became much harder at the end. It felt like a test of endurance and correctness. The Zoom technical interview had a 30-minute LeetCode-medium coding segment followed by a 30-minute behavioral segment. I had to switch quickly between writing and discussing past work. The difficulty felt average. I did not receive…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Two timed DSA questions

I was given two DSA questions with 30 minutes for each. As I worked through them, I was also asked about the time complexity of my solutions and how I could optimize them. I did not make it past the first round, so I could not continue further. The difficulty felt high mainly because the timing pressure gave me little room to recover when a solution did not click as quickly as I wanted. No offer…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: DSA, low-level design, and leadership principles

My process had four rounds. I began with DSA, then had two low-level-design rounds. One of those LLD conversations included gen-AI best practices, which was an unexpected addition to a systems-focused design interview. The final round was entirely about leadership principles and behavioral questions. Leadership-principles questions also appeared in the earlier technical rounds, so coding, design,…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: confidence intervals alongside DSA

After resume shortlisting, I completed an OA and two virtual interview rounds. The process focused on DSA, gen-AI discussion, and my projects. The DSA work leaned toward arrays, stacks, and subsequence-style problems, with behavioral questions mixed into the sessions. One tightly timed part had probability and statistics estimation questions. I had to give the answers and say how confident I was…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Three coding questions and system design

I began with an online coding test, followed by HR questions soon after I submitted it. Then I went into an in-person technical round. The in-person session was heavier than the initial screening. It included three coding questions and system-design topics. That caught me off guard because it was not only a DSA evaluation. It also tested how I would structure broader technical thinking. The proce…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: OA score before resume discussion

My process began with an OA covering DSA and aptitude questions, followed by a technical interview with two easier DSA questions. I solved those questions, then discussed my resume and a RAG-model project I had built. The OA was the difficult part for me. Its questions threw me off even though they were not presented as extremely hard. My score was low enough that I did not progress from the OA,…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: two DSA problems with live complexity explanation

After a recruiter touchpoint, I had a virtual one-on-one technical interview with an engineer. It opened with a quick introduction and then became pure problem solving. I solved two separate DSA problems on a shared coding platform. As I worked, I had to keep talking and explain time and space complexity. That made the session about showing my reasoning in real time, not simply writing code. The…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Director, product, and bar raiser sequence

The process was structured and tightly scheduled, with several human checkpoints. It began with a pre-interview screening with a hiring manager, followed by a recruiter screening call. Then I had an engineering-director discussion, a senior-product-owner conversation, and a senior-software-engineer round. After those came two bar-raiser style interviews and a final hiring-manager interview. By th…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Aug 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: three mixed coding and behavioral rounds

My process began with an online assessment. After it, I had a loop of three one-hour interviews. Each round mixed coding and behavioral questions, so I could not separate the technical work from the leadership conversations. The coding felt easy to medium for me, and the behavioral prompts were woven into the same sessions. I left with a strong sense of what they were evaluating: how I thought th…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: streaming design and difficult DSA

After applying, I went through several rounds that felt tough and uneven in difficulty. One was described as architect-level, and I did not get far overall. There was no real warm-up: the early technical work already tested deeper experience rather than fundamentals. One interview asked me to design a streaming application like a major video service and explain the architecture and system decisio…

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Amazon AdvertisingCustomer Success Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Advertising Customer Success Engineer interview: leadership and coding loop

After applying, I completed an online assessment before scheduling began. The early part felt fairly straightforward: a mostly technical phone step came first, then I moved into a loop after clearing it. I spoke with several interviewers in the loop, where technical problem solving sat alongside Amazon-style leadership discussion. The loop included coding, system design, and a bar raiser. The cod…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: STAR examples, coding and debugging

I passed an online assessment combining coding with behavioral questions about Amazon Leadership Principles. The next interviews used an in-person-style format over video. The first focused mostly on leadership principles, my experience and previous projects. Toward the end of the loop, I worked through a system-design coding problem and had more hands-on technical discussions with engineers. I e…

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Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer
Reported Jul 2026

Software Engineer interview at Amazon Advertising: Leadership Principles

The process covered several technical levels, bar-raiser-style evaluation, and a program-manager round. Expectations were communicated clearly, and Amazon Leadership Principles were central even during technical discussions, where impact and ownership still mattered. The full process took nearly a week in business-day terms. I did not receive an offer, but the structure stayed consistent enough t…

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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.

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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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