Technical Screen

Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: maximal square and good nodes

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jun 2026

I interviewed for an SDE1 role at Amazon. The early process centered on DSA and, after applying, I went through two technical rounds with different coding challenges. The first included maximal square and merge intervals, which called for DP or matrix reasoning and careful interval manipulation. In the second, the questions shifted to something like counting good nodes in a binary tree, so I was…

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