Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Arlington, VAPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment, and then I moved into interviews that felt like a classic Amazon-style combo of coding plus leadership.

After the assessment, I ended up with an in-person interview that first ran through two LeetCode questions and then transitioned into behavioral questions centered on Amazon Leadership Principles.

Alongside that, there was also an object-oriented programming coding component, so I wasn’t only solving algorithm puzzles—I also had to show clean coding structure and handle a more applied implementation question. After spending time on the technical portion, the behavioral segment forced me to talk through past experiences in a way that mapped to the leadership themes.

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