Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying through Amazon’s careers site, a recruiter reached out to me without a referral.

I cleared an online assessment first, then about a month later I went into what felt like a sprint: four rounds spread across two days. Each round had a 30-minute behavioral portion paired with a 30-minute coding portion.

The loop rounds were heavy on problem-solving and communication. The first coding round involved a couple of medium-style LeetCode problems, and the second coding round stepped up to a harder problem. The behavioral interview leaned much more into Amazon’s Leadership Principles than I expected, with the interviewer probing my examples in detail. The final round included

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