Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Hard

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

My process felt pretty structured and paced through a small number of steps.

After a recruiter conversation, I had an OA, then a block of coding questions, and the sequence kept going with more leadership-principles prompts paired with additional coding. It was very “this next” rather than open-ended, and the whole thing felt geared toward seeing how I communicated tradeoffs under time pressure.

The hardest part for me wasn’t the coding—it was a behavioral discussion framed around exceeding expectations. I started laying out my answer in a STAR format, trying to keep it complete and coherent, but I kept getting interrupted with follow-up questions before I could

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