Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Jerusalem, JerusalemPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a take-home style online assessment that included both coding and a repo-based debugging task.

I didn’t do great on the first part, and the second part was framed like an “AI-assisted” exercise, but the tool behaved more like a read-only helper than something that actually helped me fix the code. I ended up struggling to get everything fully working and passing.

Later I got pulled into a live interview anyway, which honestly caught me off guard after the take-home. The live coding included LeetCode-style questions, and I also had to explain my experience and how I approached the work. The debugging theme continued in spirit, but the biggest challenge for me was handling edge cases and

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