Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

It included LeetCode-style problems, plus components that checked how I’d reason in work-related scenarios and whether I fit Amazon’s leadership expectations. After that, I moved into two back-to-back technical interviews.

The interviews themselves mixed behavioral questions with coding. I had one medium-level coding question and one harder one, and the topics I saw centered on things like BFS and string-related problems. Across the loop, the difficulty felt genuine rather than trick-based—there was a clear expectation that I could handle both problem-solving and how I explained my reasoning