Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a take-home exam on HackerRank, and it didn’t go well for me—I didn’t perfectly solve everything.

After that, I moved to a second task that involved “AI assistance,” but the tool felt essentially unusable, and I mostly treated it as a distraction rather than a real help.

I still ended up getting the next interview, and it included LeetCode-style questions where I had to explain my experience. The interview followed quickly enough that I couldn’t really recover, and the next day I was rejected.

What hurt the most was that my earlier gaps looked difficult to overcome, and the experience ended with a clear “no.” Even so, it taught me that a take-home mismatch or tooling confusion can

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