Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path looked classic Amazon: an online assessment followed by technical interview rounds.

The technical screens and subsequent rounds focused strongly on data structures and algorithms, problem-solving, and even fundamentals around system design. Behavioral questions showed up as part of the same overall evaluation, mapped to Amazon leadership principles and real-world engineering situations.

I also had a format that felt intense because of the pacing. I sat through two back-to-back interviews where the early part centered on leadership principles and then the later portion turned into the DSA work. The DSA questions stepped up in difficulty—medium first, then hard—so I had to

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