Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Sat homePosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview was a single focused 1-hour session with an Amazon SDE-II.

We started with introductions, and then I walked through my background with a strong emphasis on a real internship experience at DRDO. Because I discussed that in depth, the interviewer ended up skipping personal projects and stayed mostly on the technical evaluation.

The last stretch was technical and fairly direct: two DSA questions. One was a medium stack problem that tested standard stack behavior and edge-case handling, and the second was the Integer Break problem (LeetCode 343). I explained my thinking clearly, communicated the approach as I went, and coded the optimal solutions within

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