Amazon·Software Engineer

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience

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Toronto, ONPosted Sep 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with an online assessment, then moved quickly to a phone screen.

After that, I had a four-hour onsite that felt like a marathon.

Inside the onsite, the interviews were split between leadership principles and technical/system design. The technical side wasn’t just one coding problem; it blended into system design thinking where I had to explain tradeoffs and structure. The leadership questions revolved around telling stories that showed how I made decisions under different constraints.

I didn’t end up getting the offer, but the experience wasn’t a total dead end either—it was intense, and I remember how much the combination of leadership storytelling plus

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