Technical Screen

Robot Coordination and File-Watcher Design

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

The author describes a first-round Amazon phone interview organized into technical questions followed by leadership-focused discussion. The applicant reports completing an initial coding problem quickly. Additional technical topics concerned coordinating multiple robots in a restaurant and designing a Kafka-related file-watching system that could handle millions of files. The robot scenario requi…

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