Amazon·Systems Engineer

Amazon Systems Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After the recruiter steps, my process landed on an assessment and a set of technical interviews that felt more manageable than some of the harsher stories I’d heard.

The OA portion included two DSA questions at a medium level. From there, I had a debugging round where the task connected directly to skills mentioned in the role description.

In the next technical round, I was asked to explain my approach clearly while solving. I got two concrete problems: one involved finding the lowest common ancestor in a tree, and the other was graph-based where I counted steps to move from a start to an end position in a 2D matrix while accounting for obstructions. The second one was solvable with BFS, which made it feel like the interviewers wanted correct algorithm

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