Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

United StatesPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, the process moved quickly into an online coding assessment with two problems in a 90-minute slot, followed by a bit of behavioral discussion at the end.

A week later, I went into a full loop that felt intense—four rounds back-to-back, each around an hour. The panel was a mix of people including my potential hiring manager, a couple of team members, a senior leader, and the Bar Raiser, and I could feel that every interviewer was grading specific Amazon Leadership Principles.

My coding rounds were LeetCode-style: one session had two questions with one harder and one medium, and the other rounds focused on additional LeetCode questions. There was also a system design interview and a dedicated behavioral interview. The Bar Raiser round blended

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