Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

Got offer

Hard

Positive

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

My early technical stage started with a one-hour OA, and then I had a virtual interview that lasted another hour.

The first 20 minutes were behavioral, and the rest moved into a LeetCode-style medium coding problem.

During the technical part, I focused on laying out my approach clearly and walked through time and space complexity as I went. What threw me off was that the code wasn’t even run—so it came down almost entirely to how well I explained the solution rather than verifying it live. I still felt like I was communicating well, but ultimately I didn’t get the offer.

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