Amazon Robotics Software Engineer interview experience

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Westborough, MAPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced an Amazon Robotics software engineering loop that felt a bit quirky but still grounded in fundamentals.

After the earlier screening stage, the interview included leadership-principle style expectations alongside a coding problem built around linked lists.

The linked list prompt had an unusual premise where the head node represented a “CEO,” and the task was to trace relationships to find the “employees” based on other properties in the structure. The way the question was framed made me think more carefully about traversal and how to filter nodes, rather than just writing a standard linked-list routine.

What stood out was how the conversation mixed practical problem solving with the behavioral

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