Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Greensboro, NCPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt fairly smooth and the people I spoke with helped set expectations.

HR support made a difference, and it moved into a loop with a lot of interviews—around five or six rounds total, with a mix of technical and behavioral questions. Most of my own loop leaned technical, but leadership principles showed up consistently.

The most intense part for me was the phone screen, which ran longer than I expected and got very implementation-heavy. I got grilled on an LRU cache, especially how to combine a hashmap with a doubly linked list, and they challenged my approach around eviction and policy details. Because I’d practiced through system design style examples

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