Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the OA, I entered a loop that felt more involved than a pure coding assessment.

In the first interview, I started with resume questions framed around leadership expectations, and then I moved into a live coding session tied to an automation framework topic.

In a different round of the same kind of process, I got deep into DSA with multiple questions, and I had to explain each approach with time and space complexity. Behavioral questions were also mixed in, but overall the questions leaned toward proving my technical reasoning step by step. Interviewers asked for a lot of detail in how I arrived at solutions.

Later, the loop continued in a similar vein—more graph and

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