Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty structured sequence that started with an online assessment and then moved into full interview rounds.

After I reached out to a recruiter about openings, she sent a HackerRank link within a few days. The OA included two medium DSA questions—one was based on binary search and the other was on trees—plus multiple-choice leadership questions. The recruiter took about two weeks to get back to me, and then it took another ten days to schedule the next round.

Round two was system design for an auction platform. The interviewer focused heavily on database schema thinking, scaling, and low-latency API design with caching. When I got follow-ups, I had to explain how I’d handle bid edits, which I

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