Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Seattle, WAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the OA cleared, my loop moved pretty quickly into back-to-back structured interviews.

I had a sequence that leaned heavily on leadership principles alongside technical problem-solving. The format I experienced was a set of multiple interviews—each one roughly an hour—where I had behavioral prompts tied directly to Amazon leadership principles, plus a technical question that was similar in style to LeetCode or a class/design-style coding task.

In one run, the loop was clearly organized into multiple coding rounds plus a dedicated generative AI discussion and a bar raiser decision-making round. Leadership principles were explicitly a must throughout, and every segment I did

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