Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

I got an invitation for an OA for graduates, and the first programming task had an absurdly reduced time limit—enough time that a big chunk felt spent simply reading and understanding what was being asked. The second test was more reasonable, but by then the first hurdle had already changed my whole pace.

In a similar OA-style setup, the assessment had multiple parts, including a standard DSA coding test, an AI-assisted coding segment where I had to trace simple bugs through a project repository, and then some work hypotheticals and a personal style component that scored how much certain