Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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IsraelPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a first contact with recruiting, I joined a fairly intense multi-part process that leaned hard into “work simulation” style evaluation.

I went through a workplace/email simulation where I had to respond and communicate like I was coordinating with colleagues, and I had to do it in a timed format with structured breaks between sections. On top of that, I also had LeetCode-style coding questions at work-simulation difficulty—medium to hard—with scenario-based prompts tied to Amazon leadership ideas, where I had to choose the most appropriate action in a given situation.

The next phase felt like a grind: I ended up doing back-to-back interviews that were split between technical problem solving and leadership assessment. Across

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