Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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São Paulo, São PauloPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My coding stage was an online test that, if I passed, sent me into a loop of four interviews.

Those four were split across languages, with some conducted in English and the rest in Portuguese, and all of them included leadership questions woven into the technical interview style.

There were three technical coding interviews in that loop, and each time leadership came up as part of the conversation rather than being completely separate. The whole thing felt designed to judge not only whether I could solve problems, but how I explained decisions and worked through ambiguity.

I didn’t receive an offer. The main thing that stuck with me was the intensity: juggling language switching and

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