Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Medium

Positive

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

What stood out in my loop was the way leadership principles training effectively became the centerpiece of the interview, even when the coding wasn’t the only focus.

I went in with leetcode questions that were generally easy-to-medium, but the interviewers drilled leadership principle stories more directly than I expected. The time distribution felt like a real LP workout: a block of LP drilling followed by leetcode-alike coding questions across multiple rounds.

The behavioral portion wasn’t generic; it was tied tightly back to leadership themes, and the follow-ups pushed for specificity about what I personally did. The coding rounds still required problem solving, but I kept noticing how often the conversational thread came back to leadership mapping,

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