Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I received a second round quickly—within two days—which turned into a workday simulation. In that simulation, I pretended to be an Amazon SDE and walked through decisions around issues that come up in that role. It wasn’t about pushing a lot of code that wasn’t tested; it was more about how I’d approach real-world tradeoffs and what choices I’d make.

Then I had my final set: three one-hour interviews back-to-back with a different person each time. Those interviews included a LeetCode-style coding problem paired with a low-level system design discussion in each segment.

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