Amazon Software Engineer interview: recruiter to live coding

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Jul 2026

I had a 30-minute recruiter phone screen about my background and resume. About a week later, I had an approximately one-hour technical video interview with a senior engineer. After introductions, I completed a live coding challenge in a shared editor. The round ended with system-design basics and questions about how my past projects worked in practice. It was average in difficulty: nothing entire…

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