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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for an Amazon SDE 1 and ended up taking the online assessment twice over a four-month window.

Each time I got through the coding portions successfully, but I never received an interview invite afterward. After the second attempt, I started wondering whether my behavioral or workstyle section was the weak spot—especially since the coding part looked strong.

What stuck with me was how clear the mismatch felt: I could solve the technical questions, yet the process didn’t move forward. I don’t have confirmation either way, but the timing and the repeated pattern made me believe the behavioral/workstyle component was weighed more heavily than I expected. The overall experience left me

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