Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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AustriaPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After starting with an online assessment, I ended up going into recruiter contact where I had to walk through my projects and also explain a leetcode-style coding question.

There were leadership-principle / STAR-format behavioral questions at the end, so even early on it didn’t stay purely technical.

The overall experience felt like it had plenty of steps, and it ended up being exhausting even though I could tell the process was structured. The coding part was still a meaningful component—enough that I needed to be clear about my thinking—while the behavioral questions added another layer that I had to switch gears for quickly. I felt like the flow was manageable in the moment, but the sheer number of stages made it mentally draining by the time everything

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