Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

One round covered basics around OOP—things like abstractions—and also touched DSA topics such as stacks and queues. There was also a small coding task where I had to reverse a string.

The other part of the loop included SQL, where I wrote basic SQL queries. Because the scope stayed pretty focused on core concepts, the experience felt straightforward compared to longer coding-and-debugging processes.

I ended up not getting an offer, but it was still a useful read on how the team evaluated breadth first. My biggest takeaway was how much they stayed anchored to fundamentals rather than pushing