Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Seattle, WAPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey ran for four rounds with a tight structure and a break in the middle.

The rounds were each about an hour, and I remember a deliberate pause of around 30 minutes between the second and third parts. The technical content started with a DSA-heavy discussion: there was an algorithmic round with two questions.

After that, the OOPS round stood out immediately. I had an OOP exercise that involved a pizza price calculator with some very basic low-level logic mixed in, plus straightforward LP questions. The next behavioral round leaned heavily into leadership principles, with extensive LP prompts and follow-up questions meant to probe my decision-making.

Even though I

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