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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an Amazon SDE-1 interview flow that started with the online assessment and then moved into a multi-round interview loop.

The OA focused on coding and an assisted-coding style segment, and I remember the experience feeling less about one single “hard” problem and more about being methodical under the test’s structure. The next parts pushed me on specific DSA patterns, but the assisted/coding-style portion made it clear they wanted me to read carefully and debug, not just solve clean LeetCode-like tasks.

After I cleared that, the loop felt like it blended algorithm work with production-style thinking. My onsite sequence included a project deep-dive plus more DSA and leadership principle checks early on, and then

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