Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Posted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied for the SDE II role and then got pulled into a virtual round that was about an hour.

It had two parts: one coding question and one leadership principle question. The coding problem was “Number of Atoms,” where I clarified inputs and edge cases, talked through the approach, and then implemented a stack-of-maps solution.

The leadership portion was more about how I connect my experiences to the way Amazon evaluates behavior. I tried to keep my answers structured and tied to impact, not just what I did.

I left feeling like the coding was reasonably smooth because I understood the required parsing structure, but the leadership part still required careful framing. Overall it

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