Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

MadridPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process felt like it piled on too much at once.

I ran into multiple interviews plus online assessments, and the coding portion wasn’t just “hard”—it was exhausting, with long instructions and programming tasks that felt like they were designed to be unforgiving under pressure.

The online parts stood out as the worst for me: the tasks were described as LeetCode-style, but the pressure of the environment and how the questions were presented made them feel ridiculous rather than simply challenging. Even the later segments kept that same vibe of high-intensity coding questions.

I ended up not getting an offer, and my reflection was blunt:

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