Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

AmsterdamPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the open assessment, I got pulled into the first round of interviews that felt very much like classic LeetCode.

The interviewer asked me through a few LeetCode-style problems, and I remember the dynamic as fairly collaborative—there was room to talk through a naive solution first and then move toward something more optimized. I used that common pattern of starting straightforward and then improving, and for the most part it felt aligned with what they wanted to see.

In another part of the loop, the difficulty felt medium level overall, and they asked for core CS fundamentals along with two easy-medium DSA questions. That round didn’t go as smoothly: the DSA questions felt like they were designed to

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