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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Bellevue, WAPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a pretty distinctive two-round setup that mixed targeted behavioral questions with a LeetCode-like technical prompt.

The first round started with “tell me about yourself,” then I got asked about a time I used GenAI and a time I faced a problem in an earlier experience. The technical part in that same round was LeetCode similar to an LRU cache, but framed as a variant.

The second round also leaned heavily behavioral—again with “tell me about yourself,” plus questions tied to a specific internship experience and a time I disagreed with a manager or peer about a project. The LeetCode-style technical segment felt connected to the rest of the evaluation because it demanded careful reasoning, while the

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