Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I had a set of four one-hour interviews, with three coding-focused rounds and one system design. Each of the rounds also included about 25 minutes of Leadership Principles questions alongside the technical part, which changed how I managed my time.

In the DSA rounds, I ran into medium-to-hard style questions that leaned into graph and DP, and I had to keep track of edge cases while still explaining my reasoning. The project discussion didn’t dominate every conversation, but it came up enough that I had to connect my past work to how I’d approach the problem. On one final coding round, I