Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

IndiaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I mainly got put into an interview flow that focused on core DSA, and it felt like they were trying to see both my coding process and how I reason about complexity.

After I moved past the early screening steps, I was given two coding problems and asked to explain my approach as I solved them—explicitly including time and space complexity. I wrote my solutions on paper and had to justify my logic clearly rather than just code quickly.

The questions themselves were very “graph and path” oriented in spirit, like finding routes between nodes and thinking about shortest paths, and the interviewers pushed me to talk through the tradeoffs as I worked. There wasn’t much room for vague answers; I had to be precise. Overall, the format felt medium difficulty:

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