Online Assessment

Amazon Advertising Software Engineer interview: STAR stories and two design questions

Amazon AdvertisingSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

I started with an online assessment containing two coding problems, one more algorithmic and the other more mathematical, plus a short work-style survey. After I passed it, I had a phone interview focused entirely on behavioral questions. I used STAR to describe past experiences and had to be deliberate about setting up each story, explaining what I'd done and giving the results. After that scree…

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