Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter touchpoint, I moved into a full Amazon SDE-2 interview loop where the technical side went much better than the behavioral side.

The DSA rounds felt smooth: I solved the problems and the interviewers seemed satisfied with how I approached them. I also had a separate LLD/HLD portion where the discussion came across as strong, and overall that part didn’t feel like the limiting factor.

Where I started to doubt myself was leadership-principles style responses. Even though the coding and design discussions were going well, I left some of those behavioral questions feeling less confident than I wanted to be. By the time I finished the loop, my perception was that my leadership-principles answers didn’t land as well as my

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