Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I went in with an SDE-1 background transition story, and the early stages included an OA/recruiting step before I hit an in-person loop. The end-to-end process stretched across several steps over time, but once I got into scheduling, the interviews came in a steady sequence.

During the interview loop, I went through multiple rounds that mixed coding, system design, and behavioral questions, and I also had discussions centered on my previous experience and projects. Some rounds were very DSA-centric, while others asked for higher-level design reasoning—enough that I felt the bar wasn’t just