Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

Vancouver, BCPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a short recruiter call that felt pretty straightforward, then about a week later I joined a long online exam that ran for roughly 2.5 hours.

The coding portion was on HackerRank, and it leaned into dynamic programming—so it wasn’t just a quick DSA warm-up, it really demanded sustained problem-solving.

By the time I got through the test, I felt like the difficulty was high enough that “a little practice” wouldn’t have covered it. I hadn’t felt totally blindsided on the concept level, but the time pressure and the depth of the questions made it hard to finish with confidence. The process didn’t end in an offer, and looking back the main reflection was that I underestimated how much DP practice would matter for this particular

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