Online Assessment

Amazon Software Engineer interview: Top-K variation and a restaurant-manager problem

AmazonSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

After an online assessment, I went through back-to-back interviews covering DSA, low-level and higher-level design, Leadership Principles, and a final bar raiser. There were a few unusual details. One round asked an AI-usage-style question. Another began with a hiring-manager version of a Top-K problem without API help. A technical prompt used a restaurant manager handling arriving groups, so I h…

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