Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

RemoteCandidate report, summarized by Dataford

My phone screen turned into a surprisingly OOP-heavy experience even though the recruiter had framed things as mostly LeetCode and grokking-style questions.

It started with a design round around an Amazon locker system. The interviewer made it clear it wasn’t system design at scale; it was more about object-oriented design, and they wanted the locker selection method completely implemented.

After that, I had a behavioral round. Then I moved into hands-on technical questions: one LeetCode hard problem about finding strings that can be formed by combining strings from a given dictionary, and then a more OOP-focused design scenario about inserting ads into a video for a user. For that one, the interviewer expected me to define the classes and

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