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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Oct 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I finished the recruiter stage, I ended up doing an OA that felt very coding-heavy but with a clear split between a standard DSA prompt and a separate repository/debugging task.

My OA had a DSA question plus an AI-assisted coding repo question. The repo part was straightforward to me and I moved through it quickly, but the DSA question was the one that really slowed me down—I couldn’t make progress on it at all, partly because I hadn’t worked much with that style of bit manipulation before.

The structure on my side matched what I was told to expect: one DSA problem and then the repo-based task. In my session, the DSA portion stood out as the hardest part, while the repository section was more forgiving. I left the assessment feeling like I’d given real effort, but

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