Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I spoke with about ten people total, and after a standard phone screen, the later rounds played out across multiple days. On at least one day, the schedule was so packed that I interviewed with up to six different people, which made the whole thing feel more like a multi-day gauntlet than a single conversation.

The difficulty came through in how the questions were interpreted. One video-based technical round ran about an hour and ten minutes and used Amazon Chime. The problems weren’t direct “here’s the question” prompts; they were described in a paragraph and required careful