RejectedTechnical Screen

SDE II Phone Screen and a No-Backtrack, No-Turns Maze Problem

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Sep 2026

SDE II 09/02 Online Assessment 09/16 Phone Screen 20 minutes of deep-diving into my resume — tech stack choices, trade-offs, business logic, which part I was specifically responsible for, plus 2 Leadership Principles. 40 minutes of coding. I couldn't find the original problem online — it was a BFS reachability problem with direction vectors. X means you can't walk there, 0 means you can. Constrai…

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