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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Seattle, WAPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview journey I experienced was a fairly structured multi-round loop.

It was four rounds total over two days, with two interviews each day. The technical content was split into the usual Amazon-style buckets: data structures and algorithms, plus a low-level design round, and then system design. The way it felt going through it was straightforward and direct—questions were clear enough that I could focus on execution rather than guessing what they wanted.

In the coding-heavy parts, I was asked DSA-style problems with a mix of standard technique questions. One round asked an easy heap-style problem about combining heavy items and accounting for cost, and another

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