Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My timeline stretched across about 12 weeks, and it felt pretty organized once it started.

I applied, then received an OA about two days later. After that, I waited through the summer and eventually got an invitation for a virtual onsite where I had to share availability dates.

The virtual onsite had four rounds. The first round combined a DSA problem with leadership principles, including a graph question around finding shortest paths using BFS. The next round stayed leadership-focused but added low-level design: I had to design a log parser and then implement a query method over the parsed log data.

Round three was primarily leadership principles. Round four returned to

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