Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

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Cupertino, CAPosted Jun 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter got in touch, I moved straight into interviews without anything like a stressful HR-style warmup.

I did a short technical phone interview where it mixed behavioral questions with a single LeetCode-style prompt at a medium level. About a day later, I got pulled into the onsite loop—several back-to-back sessions with different interviewers, including a behavioral discussion grounded in past experience and Amazon principles.

My technical rounds were the part that really set the tone. I remember having to handle a hard LeetCode question, plus a well-known OOP design challenge and a system design question. The “bar raiser” format also showed up, and that round felt a bit more exacting than

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