Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

1Posted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I just completed an Amazon SDE online assessment, and my results were mixed in a way that was hard to ignore.

In the DSA and coding section, I cleared everything and all test cases passed successfully. That part genuinely went really well.

But the backend/problem-solving section didn’t go nearly as smoothly. I only passed 2 out of 6 test cases there, and that gap made me question whether the backend portion was weighed heavily enough to outweigh how strong the DSA section looked. The discrepancy between the two sections was the most jarring part of the whole assessment for me.

When I finished, I felt confident about one component and uncertain about the other. I couldn’t tell from my own scoring

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