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Amazon Software Engineer interview experience: systems prompts and declined offer

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

After a recruiter-style start, I went straight into a technical process that felt brutal because the hard topics kept piling up. One design prompt asked me to work through a concurrent restaurant waitlist and seating system, which meant reasoning about correctness and coordination instead of reaching for a quick answer. Next came a weighted binary-grid pathfinding problem that tested my algorithm…

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