Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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HyderābādPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For me, the experience was strongly shaped by an on-campus format with multiple elimination steps before anything like a final loop.

I started with an OA that used frequency-based sorting and then shifted into other greedy/observation-style array work, plus a work simulation assessment grounded in Amazon Leadership Principles. There was also a feedback/workstyle survey layered into the OA.

Round 1 was a one-hour virtual interview with Zoom and a live coding platform. They started with a quick self-intro and asked what language I was comfortable with, then expected a brute-force first optimized solution sequence with dry runs and complexity explanations. My two DSA problems involved shortest path in a grid with obstacles,

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