Amazon Lab126 Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Amazon interview ended up being five rounds overall: three coding interviews, one system design interview, and one behavioral round.

I felt strongest on the technical parts and system design, and I knew I’d prepared a lot for leadership principles too. Still, the thing that stuck with me later was that I had reused the same story to answer two different leadership-principle questions with different interviewers because I assumed the overlap wouldn’t be a problem.

I had studied for about a month beforehand, working through a large mix of LeetCode practice and spending time on system design fundamentals. For leadership, I had written down two examples for each leadership principle and tried to vary what I said. Even with

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