Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

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United KingdomPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I expected the process to be hard, but it was harder than I thought.

I didn’t make it to the second stage.

The first stage included three parts: two chunks of coding and technical work, and then a short survey at the end. Even though I understood the structure, I still couldn’t get through all of it, and the overall difficulty felt high enough that I couldn’t recover as the stage went on.

I ended up not being selected. The disappointing part was that the difficulty felt like it exceeded what I had mentally prepared for, and the survey component didn’t feel like a simple formality—it was just one more gate in an already tight stage.

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