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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: difficult DSA and web debugging

Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

The online assessment was rough from the start. The first LeetCode-style problem was manageable, but the later questions quickly reached medium to hard difficulty. I completed the first, brute-forced the next, and never reached the third. Later rounds stayed heavily focused on DSA. One used hard, ad-hoc graph problems. Another asked me to debug a web app with a very limited AI assistant. It could…

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