Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

KakinadaPosted Aug 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My loop started with an in-person first round where the interviewer told me it would last about an hour.

It began with a resume walkthrough and questions about my past experiences, followed by HR-related questions tied to that background. Then the technical portion came through as a medium arrays problem that I had to solve by hand.

The second round moved online, and it was a backend design task for bidding in the context of an advertising agency. That shift—from solving something manually with arrays to designing a backend service—made the process feel broad in a way that tested both depth and practical reasoning. It didn’t end with an offer for me, but I remember feeling that the structure

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