Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

It took me about two and a half hours total—roughly ninety minutes for two coding questions. One was a straightforward algorithmic coding problem and the other was more like a debugging task where I had to interpret what was wrong and fix it. Overall it felt like a good filter: you needed to get unstuck fast and make progress, not just write code.

After that, my next interview had a very conversational opening where I spent a few minutes talking with the interviewer to get oriented. Then I moved into the problem itself: I’d read through the prompt, walk through the high-level thought process