Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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Sunnyvale, CAPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I cleared the OA, I moved into three onsite interviews.

The first onsite round was a bar-raiser style check, and then the second round was two LeetCode questions.

The second round was tougher to navigate because the recruiter’s accent made it hard to follow the question explanation before I even started solving. The third round combined behavioral and LLD, which meant the day ended with both principle-based storytelling and more design-oriented reasoning.

Overall this was difficult and ended without an offer. The unexpected part wasn’t just the difficulty level—it was losing some clarity because I couldn’t get a clean explanation of what was

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