Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I ended up with two main technical rounds—one that focused on low-level design and another that tested something like an easy to medium hashmap approach.

What made it harder was that leadership principles came up repeatedly, with multiple questions in each round and follow-ups that dug deeper into the technical aspects of my answers. I wasn’t just being asked to give a surface-level story; the discussion pulled on details and consistency, and it made the interviews feel less like separate modules and more like one continuous evaluation.

After the loop, I didn’t get an offer, and the whole