Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got contacted by an internal recruiter over LinkedIn, and that kicked off a longer “fit check” phase.

I ended up doing exploratory calls with three different teams since my background seemed broad enough to be potentially relevant across them.

After that, I went into a phone screen where the coding portion was basically a LeetCode-style problem. I got through the coding, but it wasn’t production-grade because I only had around twenty minutes to write code. What threw me off wasn’t the problem itself—it was how quickly the bar felt like it had to be met. I reworked the same problem the next morning and produced a clean, working implementation, expecting that to matter.

A few days later I

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