RejectedTechnical Screen

Ambiguous Word-Combination Problem, Rejected After a Rocky Phone Screen

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

Got rejected from the phone screen — I saw it on the portal before I even got the email. The interviewer opened with a hard problem, similar to a LeetCode problem, but it required outputting the actual combinations. It was really strange — the problem didn't say whether the word had to be in the given list, how many times each word could be used, or whether repeats were allowed. I asked him about…

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