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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up with a fairly structured flow that started with a recruiter screen and then moved into a technical screening.

The recruiter call was followed by a technical round where I got pulled into both behavioral questions and a live coding segment, and the format was very time-boxed.

After that, I went into a final loop that was much more interview-heavy. One technical screening interview focused mostly on coding, another mixed coding with behavioral, and the last leaned entirely behavioral. Overall it felt like the process was trying to validate both problem-solving and how I communicated—especially when my solutions weren’t perfect at first and I had to explain what I was doing and why.

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