Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

First was a LeetCode-style question along with a full-stack debugging task about finding the source of eight bugs. The second part was more of a work-day simulation on a mail server, where I had to rank responses or reactions to certain events.

After that, the live stage moved into a set of four rounds. I expected it to be more DSA-heavy coding, but the rounds ended up feeling closer to low-level design than algorithms. The interviewers were supportive, but they didn’t clearly communicate what the ambiguity was trying to test, which made me feel like I had to infer a few expectations from