Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: large project under artificial time pressure

Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer · Jul 2026

The interview felt deliberately brutal and high-pressure. The format was streamlined, but it mixed behavioral and technical questions with an artificial time constraint, something like 60 minutes for a massive project. It felt designed to see whether I would break under pressure and matched the reputation I associated with a high-attrition hiring model, even though the process itself was not chao…

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