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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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New GradPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through an Amazon SDE new grad style loop that ended in rejection after four rounds, and the overall experience felt like a full battery rather than a single decisive technical miss.

Before the interviews, I completed an online assessment, and it set the expectation that there would be more than just one coding task. After the OA, the process moved into a sequence of rounds with multiple technical parts plus leadership and behavioral weight.

In the first coding-heavy rounds, I hit standard algorithm topics like arrays/graphs and linked lists/binary-search-tree style problems, and the bar felt like it was testing both correctness and how I handled follow-ups. Alongside the coding, I had a bar-raiser style round and leadership principle checks that were more

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