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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The phone screen was surprisingly quick—only about 20 minutes—and it focused on a couple of coding questions.

I was asked about Two Sum using a hash map, then about finding the first non-repeating character in a string. There was also a behavioral question around calculated risks that felt simple to answer.

What surprised me was the system design portion: there was a quick parking lot system design question, and even though I hadn’t expected system design to show up in a screen, I felt some familiarity because I’d recently walked through a similar architecture breakdown elsewhere. The whole experience felt smooth, and I received an offer, but I ultimately declined it anyway.

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