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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: graduates OA with extreme first-task timing

Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026

I received an OA invite for a graduates program, and the timing was extreme. The first programming challenge had such a reduced window that I spent much of it reading and understanding the prompt rather than building a solution. The second test was more reasonable. The experience was very difficult for me, and I did not move forward to an offer. The bottleneck was not only coding ability. It was…

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