Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Right after the online assessment, I had an Amazon SDE-2 screening that combined a DSA question with an AI-based coding round that worked off a code repository.

For the DSA part, the prompt felt very similar to the “House Robber II” style dynamic programming problem.

Then came the AI repository round. I was given a codebase along with an AI model that had guardrails, and I was asked to make sense of failing tests. The experience was less about writing from scratch and more about debugging and adjusting my thinking based on what the test cases were doing.

Overall it felt like a two-part filter: one classic algorithmic problem up front, and then a heavier “use the repo + iterate on failures” round with the AI tooling constrained by guardrails. I

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