Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

L5Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had just finished my first round for an Amazon SDE 2 interview, and I was already wondering what came next.

My first pass was behind me, and the next round was described to me as the heavier mix—system design alongside DSA. That left me feeling like the hard part wasn’t in the past yet; it was waiting in the following step.

I didn’t have a full breakdown of questions from the source I read, but the framing was clear: the next round was going to test both my ability to reason about design and my coding problem-solving skills. What I felt most strongly was uncertainty—mainly because I had the DSA component in mind, but the system design piece was the part I couldn’t fully “map” to the first round

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