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Amazon Advertising Software Engineer Interview Experience: Time-boxed debugging

Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer · Jul 2026

The memorable part of my process was a take-home-style coding and debugging assignment. It began with HackerRank-like tasks in about 40 minutes, followed by a debugging section. In one version, I spent about an hour fixing an unexpected API-call behavior in a repository-style project so every test would pass. It was difficult because it resembled real work: I had to find why a larger codebase did…

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