Amazon·Systems Engineer

Amazon Systems Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Neutral

Toronto, ONPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My online assessment felt relatively manageable, with LeetCode-style questions in the easy-to-mid range.

The coding difficulty really jumped when I reached the coding round, which was a whiteboard session.

On the whiteboard, I had to design a linked-list sorting approach, and then I tackled a more difficult variant with restricted memory. Even though the earlier stage didn’t feel too bad, that limited-memory twist made the interview feel much harder than I expected. I didn’t get an offer, and overall the run-up-to-whiteboard contrast stuck with me.

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