Technical Screen

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: LRU cache implementation details

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026

After I cleared the initial steps, I had a phone-screen-style discussion that ran longer than expected and went deeply into implementation. The interviewer pressed me on an LRU cache: how I would combine a hashmap and doubly linked list, and how eviction would work. System-design examples on eviction policies had helped me prepare, so I could explain the reasoning instead of reciting a solution.…

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