Amazon Interview Experiences

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  Amazon Web Services Software Engineer Interview Experience: Nerves in LP loopAmazon Web Services · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  I started with an about-one-hour phone screen that was mostly technical and felt as though my future manager ran it. The process then moved quickly into an LP-focused loop, structured around Amazon-style leadership thinking even when the technical work did not look extremely hard. I got a LeetCode-medium problem in the spirit of binary search. I understood it but nerves kept me from landing the s…

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  Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview: LLD and GenAI onsite loopAmazon Web Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  After the OA, I reached four onsite rounds. The first focused on LLD, and later technical rounds combined coding with Leadership Principle questions. One later round added a GenAI component alongside another LeetCode-style coding question. The demanding part was switching among lower-level design, coding, and leadership discussion. The LeetCode questions felt medium overall, but the range of desi…

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  Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview: online assessment and two interviewsAmazon Web Services · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  The online assessment combined one or two LeetCode-style problems with a work simulation and a behavioral or Leadership Principles survey. Around the 2-hour mark, time pressure became real. I ran out of time on one question but made partial progress and kept going. I then had two back-to-back one-hour interviews, each with behavioral and technical portions. I used STAR examples tied to Amazon Lea…

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  Amazon Web Services Software Engineer interview: timed OA and leadership-principles discussionAmazon Web Services · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

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  After a recruiter call, I completed an online assessment that took a few hours. It included DSA, Leadership Principles, and a work-style simulation about what I would do in a typical workday. I had to manage time tightly and optimize as I went. It felt fair but not forgiving. Soon after, I had a technical and behavioral interview. I worked through a medium-to-hard DSA problem and then answered Le…

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  Ambiguous Word-Combination Problem, Rejected After a Rocky Phone ScreenAmazon · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

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  Got rejected from the phone screen — I saw it on the portal before I even got the email. The interviewer opened with a hard problem, similar to a LeetCode problem, but it required outputting the actual combinations. It was really strange — the problem didn't say whether the word had to be in the given list, how many times each word could be used, or whether repeats were allowed. I asked him about…

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  Leadership Principle BQs and an Edit Distance Follow-upAmazon · Software Engineer · New Grad · Onsite · Jul 2026

  Round 1 BQ1: Give an example of how you organized a product. BQ2: Give an example of a time you missed a deadline. BQ3: Talk about a time you thought something was wrong but stuck to your own view. Prepare your stories using the STAR method. Except for the first two — "the project you're most proud of" type stories — try to add lessons learned to the rest. Tell the story in a concise, easy-to-fol…

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  Phone Screen Package Installer, Onsite Topological SortAmazon · Software Engineer · Onsite · Jul 2026

  Phone Interview Given a mapping (Map / Adjacency List) of software packages and their dependencies, write a class or method to install a specified package along with all of its dependencies. Assume each package object has an install() method that only installs that package itself and does not handle its dependencies. Need to implement an installWithDependencies(package) method that makes sure all…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview experiencePrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

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  Before the interviews, I spent hours on coding challenges and felt the preparation pay off immediately. The first technical question was about substring lengths and matched something I had seen while preparing. I was then asked about merging linked lists, followed by a behavioral question about frugality. The process was straightforward and approachable, which surprised me given the usual intensi…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: campus OA, graph problems, and GenAI discussionPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  The process was shaped by an on-campus format with several elimination steps before anything resembling a final loop. It began with an OA that included frequency-based sorting, greedy and observation-based array work, an Amazon Leadership Principles work simulation, and a feedback and workstyle survey. Round 1 was a 1-hour virtual interview using Zoom and a live coding platform. After a short int…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: coding and leadership-principles screenPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  After recruiter outreach, I went through a focused phone interview process with one coding round and two leadership-principles-style questions. Coding and the principles felt like two parts of the same test: I needed to show general engineering ability and communicate how I was thinking. I did not need deep knowledge of the exact team. The recruiter presented it as a general-skill screen about ho…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: coding assessment, live coding and leadership principlesPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  I started with an online coding assessment on data structures, algorithms, and basic problem-solving. The technical interviews that followed combined live coding, system-design fundamentals, and Amazon leadership principles. The interviewers were professional and kept asking follow-ups to understand my reasoning, not only the final answer. It was challenging, but organized enough that I could tel…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: compact practical roundsPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  I had two one-hour interviews. Each included one technical question and Leadership Principles. I was also asked about AI use. A hiring manager introduced one round with a top-k-style problem without an API. Another technical prompt used a restaurant-manager scenario involving groups arriving, so it felt more applied than a textbook coding exercise. I did not receive an offer. For such a short pro…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: debugging and virtual loopPrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

  My first technical task was a web-app debugging exercise rather than pure LeetCode. A limited AI assistant could read files and explain them, but it would not give me the answer. I still had to reason through the code and find the bug myself. The later virtual loop covered data structures, system design, debugging, and behavioral discussion around Amazon Leadership Principles. The technical work…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: difficult online assessmentPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  The online assessment was harder than I expected. It had three LeetCode-style questions. I completed the easier first one, brute-forced parts of the second, and could not fully solve the third, which was in the medium-to-hard range. The questions emphasized data structures and edge cases. One late question had many scenarios to account for. I could move between questions and return to earlier one…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: DSA and Leadership PrinciplesPrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

  The process leaned heavily on DSA, Leadership Principles, and some low-level design. I felt the evaluation was split between algorithmic problem solving and how I communicated through the Leadership Principles lens. The DSA rounds varied in difficulty but were LeetCode-like. They included medium problems and at least one hard question with DP and graph themes. I had to explain my thinking, time a…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: DSA, design, and leadership principlesPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  My process began with an online assessment on data structures and algorithms. Soon after that, I had a technical phone screen, followed by a final loop of multiple consecutive rounds. What I remember most is how much the later interviews emphasized Amazon leadership principles alongside system design. The technical and behavioral sides were not separate in the loop. System design was a major them…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: four difficult global roundsPrime Video · Software Engineer · Other · Jul 2026

  I had four one-hour interviews with people in different countries, and it was the hardest interview experience I had done. Even so, nobody was disrespectful. Everyone stayed attentive and respectful. The mix was technical and behavioral. One round covered troubleshooting, leadership-principle questions such as Bias for Action, and GenAI fluency. Another used coding problem solving tied to Deliver…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: four in-person roundsPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  After I finished the online assessment, I eventually heard back and was invited to an in-person set of interviews. The process was smooth, professional, and friendly. I had four rounds with a lunch break in the middle. One was purely behavioral, while the other three blended behavioral discussion with technical evaluation. The technical topics I remember were topological graph sorting, cycle dete…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: online assignment and medium coding questionPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

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  My process began with a straightforward online assignment. After a wait, I was invited to one additional round. That round combined a LeetCode-style medium coding question with a short behavioral section. It felt balanced: I had to solve the problem and talk through my experience and behavioral instincts in the same session. Location: Culver City, CA. Overall feedback: positive. Offer status: got…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: prior Python services and module ownershipPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  A recruiter brought me into what felt like a screen focused on experience. Rather than starting with deep technical questions, the conversation was about my previous company and what I had been doing day to day. I described my work on Python services and a module system I built, stressing how critical it was to the broader setup. That focus on my actual work history shaped the interview and did n…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: recruiter screen and shared-editor live codingPrime Video · Software Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026

  I first had a brief recruiter phone screen of about 30 minutes, focused on my background and résumé. I was then invited to a technical video interview with a senior engineer. That video round took around 60 minutes. After introductions, I completed a live coding challenge in a shared editor. The rest shifted to system-design basics and my past projects. It was a mix of building, explaining, and c…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: sliding window and debuggingPrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

  The interviews started simply enough with a behavioral component and a LeetCode-style coding problem. I found the behavioral part harder than expected because it was situation based and open ended. They cared about how I would approach a scenario and what my thinking looked like. In the phone-style flow, I also had a medium-difficulty coding question that used something like a sliding-window appr…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: STAR stories and networking depthPrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

  The recruiter-style phone screen started with my background and became more probing as it went on. I described my current experience and projects, and each answer brought questions about why I'd made particular choices. Using STAR helped organize my stories, though the follow-ups became increasingly technical. I also answered networking questions about TCP/IP, OSPF and BGP. More structured interv…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: take-home and AI toolPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

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  I began with a HackerRank take-home and did not solve everything perfectly. A second task used 'AI assistance,' but the tool felt unusable to me, so it was more of a distraction than help. I still advanced to an interview with LeetCode-style questions and questions about my experience. It came too soon for me to recover from the earlier work, and I was rejected the next day. The earlier gaps felt…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: timed DSA and leadership loopPrime Video · Software Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2026

  I had four one-hour interviews: three coding rounds and one system-design round. Each included about 25 minutes of Leadership Principles questions, so I had to manage technical work and leadership discussion within the same schedule. The DSA questions were medium to hard and involved graphs, DP, edge cases, and explaining my reasoning. My past projects came up often enough that I needed to connec…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: two DSA questions, leadership scenarios and waitlistPrime Video · Software Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

  My online assessment had two DSA questions as well as multiple-choice scenario questions about leadership quality. After I was shortlisted, I had a technical online interview with two more DSA problems, and I solved them. The interviews felt organized and consistent. They were not only about abstract coding; leadership expectations and structured thinking also showed up in the questions. Even aft…

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  Prime Video Software Engineer interview: two practical programming problemsPrime Video · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  My assessment was practical and a little different from standard LeetCode. I got two programming questions that increased in difficulty. The first was fairly trivial math, while the second was more interactive and open ended about what they wanted. For the second problem, I had to work out the intended requirements and then implement several functions to make the solution work. It felt as though…

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  Software Engineer interview at ADCI - Karnataka: difficult DSA and GenAIADCI - Karnataka · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  The process moved from an OA-style round to DSA and then a GenAI-focused round, but late stages still included LeetCode-style DSA work. One problem used graph algorithms and another required more ad-hoc reasoning; both felt genuinely hard. Amazon Leadership Principles shaped the behavioral framing throughout, linking impact and ownership to problem solving. The difficulty kept rising, especially…

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  Software Engineer interview at ADCI - Karnataka: DSA and AI-assisted codingADCI - Karnataka · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  There were four stages in total, but I did not clear the first. It contained two questions: a DSA problem and an AI-assisted, repository-based coding task. I produced a solution for the DSA question but struggled with edge cases, then ran out of time before I could debug and iterate properly. The second task differed from a standalone LeetCode question because it used a codebase and a limited ass…

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  Software Engineer interview at ADCI - Karnataka: DSA and GenAIADCI - Karnataka · Software Engineer · Jul 2026

  The process had two compact rounds. In the first, I solved two medium LeetCode-style DSA problems and discussed a project. The second combined one DSA question with basic GenAI questions and more project discussion about both individual and team work. The difficulty felt reasonable, but I had to explain my answers clearly and connect technical decisions to leadership-principle ideas such as trade…