Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Medium

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New York, NYPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview experience was pretty straightforward and centered on a pair of technical challenges.

They asked a “fill rain” style question, and then for the design portion I had to work through something comparable to an LRU cache conceptually, but with a delivery-service framing like Uber or DoorDash. It felt like they were checking both my ability to reason through known data-structure patterns and my ability to translate that into a bigger system.

The way the round played out felt average rather than brutal, and I wasn’t stuck in an overwhelming multi-round marathon. I didn’t receive an offer, but I left feeling that the questions were clear enough that my limiting factor was just

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