Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After an online assessment, I went into a sequence of technical rounds that felt intense and heavily focused on problem solving.

I ended up doing DSA-style coding where I had to produce full solutions, including one medium LeetCode prompt and a harder LeetCode-style problem right after. The jump in difficulty was noticeable and required me to be precise about how I reasoned through edge cases.

My design portion also leaned practical: I went through an LLD discussion framed around a familiar scenario, where the emphasis was on how to structure components rather than writing code. I also got hit with another higher-level design topic variation. Overall, the system design and DSA questions blended together in a way that

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