Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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MadridPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My journey started with a HackerRank screening where I solved a problem involving arrays.

After that, I had to complete two behavioral questionnaires, and the process felt tightly anchored to Amazon-style leadership principles—my answers really mattered for how I framed impact and tradeoffs.

A bit later, I hit the OA again in a more algorithm-heavy way: I did a coding assessment with a medium greedy LeetCode-style problem and a 3D dynamic programming challenge that felt close to a LeetCode hard. The test was strict about edge cases and the time felt limited for how much they asked, so I had to keep tightening my approach as I went.

Once the coding portion was over, there was

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