Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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IaşiPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience for this role ran over four rounds and felt pretty balanced, even though one part was clearly the hardest for me.

The first round was technical and focused on linked lists and two-pointer techniques, then it expanded into discussion around graphs and dependencies. I was nervous at the start, but I was able to work toward an optimal solution.

Then I moved into a behavioral round tied directly to Amazon’s leadership principles, using examples from my hackathon and personal projects. After that came an object-oriented design round where I had to design a system around datasets, rules, and alerts, including moving averages. That structure and the alert logic were the part I struggled with the most, because

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