Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: ambiguous practical programming task

Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer · Jul 2026

The questions were practical programming prompts rather than textbook-only coding. The first was fairly trivial math. The second was interactive: I had to work out what the interviewer wanted, then implement several functions to make it work. That second task stretched me because it required clarification and interpretation. I had to check my understanding early and keep iterating until the imple…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.